“I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.”

Markings (1964)

When asked &quot;why you write about sex?&quot; Paglia on AOL (11 September 1996) http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/aolpag.htm <br class="br">Context: I have been studying it [sexuality] since before it became fashionable. At the Yale Grad School, for example, where I was from 1968 to 1972, I was literally the only person in the humanities departments doing a dissertation on sex — hard to believe now, but I was a real pioneer and I took the career hit for it. It was considered tacky, low, not serious — my dears, I was absolutely scouring the Yale archives for every bit of dirt on homosexuality, sadomasochism, transvestism — you name it. That is the basis of the research for my first book, Sexual Personae, which was my dissertation.

Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Canst thou judge men?... then make us imitators of thyself, as Socrates did. Do this, do not do that, else will I cast thee into prison; this is not governing men like reasonable creatures. Say rather, As God hath ordained, so do; else thou wilt suffer chastisement and loss. Askest thou what loss? None other than this: To have left undone what thou shouldst have done: to have lost the faithfulness, the reverence, the modesty that is in thee! Greater loss than this seek not to find! (91).

Source: 2015, Address to the People of India (January 2015)

Ahunuvaiti Gatha; Yasna 29, 1.
The Gathas

&quot; The Presence of Love http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Presence_Love.html&quot; (1807), lines 1-4.

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 94

The Pacific Way: A Memoir (1996).