To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

Delimitation is always difficult. The world is one, life is one. The sweetest and most heavenly of activities partake in some measure of violence - the act of love, for instance; music, for instance.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?