We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

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.

May your heart be lighter today.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.