By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.