Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

those who despair of life are not long for it.

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.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

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

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.