The ideal is the enemy of the real.

In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Pleasure is the Root of All Good

Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

I knew instinctively that it was the very hardness of life in the desert which drew me back there - it was the same pull which takes men back to the polar ice, to high mountains, and to the sea.