All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.

You cannot know what you do not feel.

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.

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.