"In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what app…"

"If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than …"

"[Power is] the ability not to have to please."

"I can remember...the surprise of animals, not only the pretty mare...but animals in and out, cats and dogs and a milk…"

"I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life, but I am not one of them. They can sit inside themselves li…"

"Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existen…"

"Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has…"

"Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is devi…"

"Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within …"

"I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. …"