It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

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

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.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent — it’s like the Stockholm syndrome. But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. It happens when you learn something, too.