Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

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

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.