Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

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.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.