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.

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

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.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

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

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