There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

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 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.