Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.