Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.