"I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me."

"There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do."

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."