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.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

The journey is over. Love to all.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

We in middle age require adventure.

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

maturity ... is letting things happen.