Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

The task is to keep the lost opportunities of the past alive.

With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.