Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it.

The women all had big minds because they were big animals, but they didn't use them for this reason: unusual ideas could make enemies and the women, if they were going to achieve any sort of comfort and safety, needed all the friends they could get. So, in the interest of survival they trained themselves to be agreeing machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking and then they thought it too.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian]

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.