But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

We're not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.