I am a very reclusive, private person.

The Dionysian is no picnic.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.