Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

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.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, "What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"