"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…"

"[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…"

"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."

"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. …"