Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

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.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

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.

Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.