The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.