War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

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

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

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

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

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.

Maleness in America is not absolutely defined; it has to be kept and re-earned every day, and one essential element in the definition is beating women in every game that both sexes play.