The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.