Camille Paglia

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

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

I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.