Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.