Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.