Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.

Your life is a Fellini film, lacking only Anita Ekberg with a cat on her head.

Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

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

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.