I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

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

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.

I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.

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.

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.