In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

Teachers today can't take to a child.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.