Children notice things first, people later.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.