Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

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

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, 'Go to sleep by yourselves.' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.