Humor Is An Antidote To Isolation.

Growing Up Human Is Uniquely A Matter Of Social Relations Rather Than Biology. What We Learn From Connections Within The Family Takes The Place Of Instincts That Program The Behavior Of Animals; Which Raises The Question, How Good Are These Connections?

Television. It Has Changed The Way That We Perceive The World Out There, And Though We Know That - Have Indeed Been Bombarded With Analyses On The Consequences For Society, For The Family, And For Individual Psychology - I Don't Believe That We Have Yet Begun To Appreciate The Reach Of Its Subliminal Effects, Of What We Might Call 'the Slow Viruses.' They Not Only Get Into Our Ways Of Seeing, They Pervade The Ways In Which We Weave Our Perceptions Together Into Patterns That Support And Explain Our Thinking And Our Doing And Both Direct And Hinder Various Kinds Of Relationships.

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be.

If Every Nation Gets The Government It Deserves, Every Generation Writes The History Which Corresponds With Its View Of The World.

Though We Do Not Have Many Poets, We Certainly Have More Than We Deserve, For We Deserve None At All. It Is Ourselves That We Are Hurting By Our Stupidity And Ignorance Of Poetry.