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.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.

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

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

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made