“Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.”

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.

Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.

There is no more creative force in the world than the menopausal woman with zest.

We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.

We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.

Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

I think I’ve done well in all. It’s important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read.