Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.

the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.