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

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.