Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

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

reaction isn't action - that is, it isn't truly creative.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.