Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?