We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de si?cle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

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

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.

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