A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

The moment there is imagination there is myth