You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.