
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

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

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

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

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

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

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.

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.