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.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.