You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at all. They were worse than the grave, for in the grave is an...

People deal with their shadow side in a number of ways, the most common way being to find outside enemies and point to them, demonizing them and blaming them for long lists of perceived evils. This...

Puritanism, wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

When a corporation writes something off, it accepts the cost. When we write off corporations as inherently corrupt, we accept the cost, too.

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to believing in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, according to Veronica, its victory is assured.

Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with...

Mendel hated motorists. Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

And the passion with which we loved the Lord was a measure of how deeply we feared and distrusted and, in the end, hated almost all strangers, always, and avoided and despised ourselves.

My father is an equal opportunity bigot. He wouldn't deprive a man of his rights. And he's not a hate-filled man. He simply knows in his heart that Italians are superior, that stereotypes were created...

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

The human project, after freeing itself from the constraints of previous philosophies that believed in the possibility of an absolute truth, has come to envisage the 're-evaluation of all values,'...

He saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.