On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Communism is fascism with a human face.