There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

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

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.