anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

To hear two American men congratulating each other on being heterosexual is one of the most chilling experiences - and unique to the United States. You don't hear two Italians sitting around complimenting each other because they actually like to go to bed with women. The American is hysterical about his manhood.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.