Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.