All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.