He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men...

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

He said I was trapped. He had trapped me. I told him to carefully consider what trapped animals do when they do not wish to be trapped.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

There's just the unabashed and unprecedented and disgusting level of money in politics. I don't blame just the Republicans; the Democrats are just about as beholden to it, too.

The best poems take long journeys. I like poetry best that journeys--while remaining in the human scale--to the other world, which may be a place as easily overlooked as a bee's wing

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.