Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

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

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.