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

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

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.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.