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.

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.