It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.

Economics anxiety may be even more common than the often identified 'math anxiety,' for unlike math, which has its personal uses, economics is seen as a mysterious set of forces manipulated from above.

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!

You're afraid to be close to women. Because it's not masculine to be close to women. The last time you were close to a woman, you were a child.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.