Don't Ask To Live In Tranquil Times.

Sex Has Never Been Private And It Never Will Be. We Perform The Act In Private But We Must Be Public About The Connection. Sex Is How We Pass Down Worldly Goods. It's How We Create The Primary Unit Of Our Society, The Couple. ... This Rule Applies To Gay People As Well As Straight People. ... The Community Absolutely Must Know Who Is Straight, Who Is Gay, Who Is Married, And Who Is Single. Without That Information We Make Painful Mistakes And Lose Time.

Youth Moves Out, Leaving No Forwarding Address. No Matter How You Try, You Can't Reach That Person Again Or That Place.

Language Exerts Hidden Power, Like The Moon On The Tides.

Do Not Judge. Never Presume To Judge Another Human Being Anyway. That's Up To Heaven.

I'm Beginning To Feel That The Real Endangered Species On Planet Earth Are Not The Whales And The Elephants But Those Of Us Who Can Laugh At The World And Ourselves. ... I Fear The Dry Turn Of The American Mind, This Focus On The Literal, As Much As I Fear Our Capacity For Self-destruction. We've Become Hagridden By Facts, Obsessed With Product Instead Of Process. Where's The Energetic Wit, The Looney Outlook, The Frivolity, The Lightness Of Comforting Laughter? It Has Become Fashionable To Know And Unfashionable To Feel, And You Can't Really Laugh If You Can't Feel.