[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.

The Dionysian is no picnic.

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

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

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