The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.