I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm-as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.

It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.