I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

I look forward and see myself look back.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.