We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

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

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

The more women succeed and rise up into positions of power, the more remote they become from actual masculine energy.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.