Fear is a huge thing for older people.

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.