"If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so."

"Confession, alas, is the new handshake."

"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."

"The poem is the point at which our strength gave out."

"Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?"