The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

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

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

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.

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