Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

Death was far more certain than God.

Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.