it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.

Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.

Dogs are us, only innocent.

There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings. ... More than Mallomars, more than hot sex, we want to belong.