A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.