From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I don't know.