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.

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

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.

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.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

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.