Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.