Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.