Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

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

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

television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

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

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

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.