People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.