Quotes Du Jour

�The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become Gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility towards women so manifest in most club-car stories.�
- W. H. Auden (1907 � 1973), Anglo-American poet: forward to Phyllis McGinley�s �Times Three: Selected Verse from Three Decades.�, 1960.

�There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today�s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from �High Noon� to �Robocop� is a long descent.�
- Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950), American editor and columnist: in the �International Herald Tribune� (Paris), Oct. 31, 1990.

�There is no weather in Palm Springs � just like TV. There is also no middle class, and in that sense the place is medieval.�
- Douglas Coupland (b. 1961), Canadian author: the narrator (Andy), in �Generation X�, 1991.

�The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.�
- Philip K. Dick (1928 � 1982), American science fiction writer: introduction to �I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon�, 1986.