513 Quotes by Camille Paglia

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

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.

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

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

Like Picasso. Because he was mean to his girlfriend, he was not a great artist?

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