Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow.

I don’t do math.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly to find your real job and do it.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.

My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.