“I really got into philosophy in detail by way of therapy.”

“One of the catch phrases for me is that orientation is finding your way successfully in new situations, and most situations are going to be new.”

“There are so many stories out there so that whichever way your bread is buttered, there is a story to latch onto.”

“There are no footholds, no certainties right now; everything is up in the air. Everyone of us questions everything we’re hearing right now.”

“Right now a lot of people continue to be disoriented looking for new footholds every day.”

“What we know is that ‘social distancing’ - that very word - flies right in the face of the modern economic ways we have set our systems up.”

“As long as there is social distancing going on, you are going to have a big hurtful, harmful impact on the economy.”

“If we don’t have a return back to normalcy, I have a hard time seeing how we’ll get through all this without there being a major reorganization either privately or through bankruptcy.”

“Pandemics have often been the tipping point in history.”

“The virus punched America right on the nose.”

“Every system is going to have an Achilles heel, and maybe a pandemic indicates the Achilles heel of a democracy. Does that mean democracies are bad?”

“Nature is ruthless and doesn’t care about what we want.”

“We’re on unsettled ground and we’re trying to move towards something firmer, but I don’t know what that is.”

“We’re going to have to figure out some things, and we’re all gonna have to get good at reorienting ourselves and at coping and mastering. And you can take this negatively or positively; it doesn’t have to be negative.”