Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

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

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

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.