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.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

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.

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

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.