The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

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

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.

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?"

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.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.