The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.