I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

Vessels expose the invisible Zeitgeist, the visible formed by the invisible.