The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency." In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.