I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human history. Both gender and race are inventions that go deep because we have been raised with them, but they are still inventions.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

Inner space is the real frontier.