Judeo-Christians have got to respect the pagan truth shown in the popular culture of sex and violence. It's meaningful about the elemental forces of life, the brutality of life and nature.

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

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

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.