American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.