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" If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words. "

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" I guess I'm just a natural warrior. "

" Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. "

" The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. "

" Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. "

" Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality. "

" Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. "

" It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. "

" I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer. "

" Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. "

" Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating. "

" I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. "

" We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives. "

" I am a very reclusive, private person. "

" In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education. "

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" Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. "

" Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? "

" Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. "

" Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map. "

" 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. "

" My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. "

" I've been a longtime admirer of Condoleezza Rice, because I like her articulateness and style - her toughness and rigor. "

" Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. "

" Rule of art: Cant kills creativity! "

" Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys. "

" I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy. "

" 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. "

" Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. "

" Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. "

" I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. "

" Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? "