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

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

Power is the ability not to have to please.