Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Bisexuality is our best hope of escape from the animosities and false polarities of the current sex wars.

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

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.