[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.

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

Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.