It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.