Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

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.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.