For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.