Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Very gifted people may be sociopathic in varying degrees.