Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.

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.

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