I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! ... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress...

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.