Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.