Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

I have a theory that theories are destructive.

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

The only thing that satisfies the soul is passionate life.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.