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

New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

We in middle age require adventure.

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

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

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.