Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.