There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.