Fear is a huge thing for older people.

'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they go and gather and gossip. ...Whatever the circumstances the genius has put you into, the fact of individuality defends the soul against all class-action claims. No soul is mediocre, whatever your personal taste for conventionality, whatever your personal record of middling achievements.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

I think there is such a thing as a bad seed that comes to flower in certain people. The danger with that theory is that we begin to look for those "troublemakers" early on and try to weed them out. That's very dangerous, because it could work against kids who are just routine troublemakers.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.