I don't mind being regarded as perverted and unnatural, but I would die if people thought I was a Democrat.

There is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.