What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. - Susan Sontag

The Bush administration has committed the country to a new, pseudo-religious doctrine of war, endless war — for "the war on terror" is nothing less than that.

You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.