Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

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.

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.