Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

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.

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.

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

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

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