For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.