“Ugliness is the new beauty. Weakness is the new strength. Emotional survival -endurance- is the new courage. Women are applauded no matter what they do and masculinity is institutionally denounced. Adolescents are treated as if they are supernaturally wise, and the aged aand experienced are ignored or dismissed as if they were children. The heroes of history are now villains and every guttersnipe is glorified.”

“There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.”

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”

“Teachers have to be learners. They have to treat each new group of students as a different group, fresh and unknown. Teachers often perceive new students as being the same as those in the previous group and apply the same practice to them. If teachers are learners, they will study the new group of students in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses, then teach them accordingly.”

“A good rotation. A rotation I define as the experiencing of the new beyond the expectation of the experiencing of the new.”

“Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival”

“Miller: It’s mythic New York. And that’s what Will drew. He and I really did share two profound loves: One was for New York, and the other was for beautiful women.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“I am so surprised by New York City. I thought New York must be ugly and unpleasant, you know, I saw all those movies about New York….But New York is beautiful and the people here are really nice.”

“The question is whether you'll tell your children that this decade was the beginning of a new dark age, or whether it was the time of something new and wonderful.”