Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

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.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

There are people that have had worse happen to them. All those people that died in the hotel bombing? All those that were maimed and left orphaned?

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

One only really sees with the heart.

If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.

In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.