We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a group, even those we do not like or believe to be useless, must be present and supported.
The next frontier is our own selves.
The Harvard Law of Animal Behavior holds that under controlled experimental conditions of temperature, time, lighting, feeding, and training, the organism will behave as it damn well pleases.
Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.
The essence of being human is being creative.
The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.
In order for the Prevail Scenario to work. . . you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.
My favorite color is you.
The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca. . . . It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.
The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We have both the capacity and the obligation to do better.
It is precisely because I believe it is not possible to neatly separate the sexual from other sorts of relations that I find the movement to bar the sexual from pedagogy not only dangerous but supremely impractical.