Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

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

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope

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