Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink . It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don't.

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.

I've learned to accept birth and death . . . but sometimes I still worry about what lies between.

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

Skyping with your spouse works well enough, but apparently it is hard to get the kids to hang out on Skype for long.

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.

You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.