There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.

I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.