I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

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

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.