Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

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