I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.