Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make the powerful virtuous, glorifying in becoming victimized by them.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.