Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

The new age self-help phenomenon is pretty mushy, but it's also very American. Our history is filled with traveling preachers and quack medicine and searches for the soul. I don't see this as a new thing. I think the new age is part of a phenomenon that's been there all along.

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

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

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

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.