“Tiny spoons were incompatible with a state of sensual turmoil.”
“The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is a free searching self perfecting being, it follows that the state is a profoundly anti human institution. That is, its actions are incompatible with the full harmonious development of human potential in its richest diversity. Hence incompatible with the true end of man…!”
“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”
“Ideas themselves were sensual things to him.”
“In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.”
“I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?”