What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.