Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?