"Even up to the twentieth century, some primitive tribes had only two number words: one and two." . . . footnote: "Here I use the word "primative" to describe the condition of the tribe's culture and not to describe the physical attributes of its members. All human beings alive today are modern Homo sapiens sapiens."

"With a will, determination, selflessness and devotion for which words are too weak, she consecrated her whole life and her whole being to Socialism. She gave herself completely to the cause of Sociali…"

"Things that appear as images or pictures, but that somehow impose on me a sense of their actual weight, density and volume, of their physical being in the world. This sensation is then even further en…"

"When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no. You know there are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your so…"

"“We need a reserve of life, every kind of life,” he explained. “Today for the spirit—a glimpse of space and green. Tomorrow for survival, flat-out survival."