We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.