Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.