Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

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

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling." Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.

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