Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Gay men may seek sex without emotion; lesbians often end up in emotion without sex.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.