What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?