For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.