Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability

'Gay panic' is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.