There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.