When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves year….

Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent con….

I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly civilized form, in that box….

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always v….

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anyt….

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capaci….

[I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our h….

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object..

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass..

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's….

I think that it's really important to go away and come back..

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can ….

Every doorway, every intersection has a story..

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose ….

I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ra….

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in re….

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocenc….

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and cla….

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves..

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how p….

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out..