The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

continuing sexual interest and perfect sexual adjustment between partners who have been together for thirty years is so difficult and rare that no one should feel guilty or inadequate for not having managed it.

My knees have always been ugly.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.