Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.