The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.