I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.