Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak.

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.