Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Nightingales sang about her wherever she went.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

You have what it takes to push forward or to move backwards, but only one of these directions is capable of compensating you for all your pain and sufferings.

I’m a stranger behind the same set of eyes that the girl in the photo holds.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.