I'm an atheist, but I see the great world religions as enormous works of art. As the best way to understand the universe and man's place in it. - Camille Paglia

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

Gautier says, “Baudelaire abhorred philanthropy, progressivists, utilitarians, humanitarians and utopianists.” In other words, Baudelaire condemned Rousseausism in all its forms. Today, Rousseausism has so triumphed that the arts and the avant-garde are synonymous with liberalism, an error enforced by literature teachers, with their humanist bias. I follow the Decadents in trying to drive Rousseauist benevolence out of the discourse in art and literature. The Decadents satirized the liberal faith in progress with sizzling prophecies of catastrophe and cultural collapse.