It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

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

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

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

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention