Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.