If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. |
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! |
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. |
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. |
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. |
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. |
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. |
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. |
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. |
Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! |
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. |
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. |
Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. |
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. |
If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. |
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. |