For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.