If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.