If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…

It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

Affection is a much profound emotion, which is inexplicable but can be fathomed through our pores. It percolates down our skin slowly.

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.

Be friendly first. Service starts with a friendly person with a friendly smile, who offers friendly words first. How friendly are you?

Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul.

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

Two fat ladies, 88! Not that you'd find these ladies at a bingo hall, of course... they're altogether a higher class of fat lady.