Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.

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.

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

It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of morally or politically correct sexual behavior will be subverted by nature's daemonic law.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest