And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.