Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

... 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.