Old men cannot trash attractive women on TV even if they're right.

I wish they could. I think we'd be a better society if our politicians stood or fell on the strength of their arguments. But like it or not, we're not, and we can't even really talk about it because it sounds sexist to even SAY, as if we're implying that men can't debate women because they're the gentler sex or some bullshit.

Miller's Batman has much in common with Bruce Willis in Live Free Die Hard, and Sylvester Stalone in both the new Rambo and the new Rocky and even John Locke on Lost — older, we have a psychological need to know there is some kind of action hero role model always out ahead of where we are now, so that it is not too late for us, if we have gotten to 29 and are not yet Batman.

"Contemporaries fully understood the atrocity, and its repetition at Wexford a month later, to be shocking, terrible events. "

"The only honourable course is for the Government to cut all funding to showjumping." - oh, do fuck off and grow a brain will you?

How not to be a good lecturer = "This position was strengthened by my experiences as an undergraduate at university. The only courses that included books by women were the ones on Austen and Bronte. When I asked why a course on twentieth century fiction included nothing by women the lecturer challenged me to name books by women worthy of being on his list. I suggested books by Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, Flannery O’Connor, and Jean Rhys. The lecturer dismissed all of them as lightweight"