By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

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

I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate