It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.

During the patriarchal time, the men were always and invariably dominant, legally and socially in marriage, so now it's possible to remodel the entire house of marriage, put in new footings and new joists and a new sort of interior. That is exactly what some men and women are now doing.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.