Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.