Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

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

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.