The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

Hope is a conscious mission. Dream is an unconscious vision.

It’s not right because it just isn’t. You can’t go round making up evidence just because you’re convinced someone is guilty. You can’t be judge and jury

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.

Learning is as much an art as teaching

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

Without a goal, you cannot survive.

Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?