All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.