I Approached The Idea Of College With

The Need To Find Meaning...is As Real As The Need For Trust And For Love, For Relations With Other Human Beings.

Human Nature Is Potentially Aggressive And Destructive And Potentially Orderly And Constructive.

It Is Utterly False And Cruelly Arbitrary... To Put All The Play And Learning Into Childhood, All The Work Into Middle Age, And All The Regrets Into Old Age.

Life In The Twentieth Century Is Like A Parachute Jump: You Have To Get It Right The First Time.

People In America, Of Course, Live In All Sorts Of Fashions, Because They Are Foreigners, Or Unlucky, Or Depraved, Or Without Ambition; People Live Like That, But Americans Live In White Detached Houses With Green Shutters. Rigidly, Blindly, The Dream Takes Precedence.