The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.