Understanding why is never enough.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.