The journey is over. Love to all.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.