sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.