I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.

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.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.