I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live in a box with bags over their heads. Though he and I hardly agree on politics (I voted for Ralph Nader last year and may go Green again in 2004), I respect Limbaugh as a political analyst and deft rhetorician who is a master of the microphone and who knows how to engage and challenge a vast audience.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

There is such a thing as seduction, and it needs encouragement rather than discouragement in our puritanical Anglo-American world.