The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.