Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.