The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.