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

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

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.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

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.

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

I am a very reclusive, private person.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

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

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

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

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

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

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

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.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

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