The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.