Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.

The subject of feminism cannot be purely a fiction, as some postmodern writers suggest, produced by the discourses of power.

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

With out freedom nothing has value, Free agency is the only true key to happiness.

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Who would ever understand me?

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.