Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.

Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.

Power is the ability not to have to please.