I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

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

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

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.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

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.