The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

You have to stop to change direction.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

I believe indeed that to rescue the humanist tradition of the last decades is of the utmost importance, and that Victor Serge is one of the outstanding personalities representing the socialist aspect of humanism.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.