The negative cautions of science are never popular.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

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

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

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