I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.