Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

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.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.