A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experienceโฆit suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.