A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

We must live in groups; other people are like nutrients for us, and are absolutely essential for our survival.

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

We are what we seem to be.