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.

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

Women are an alien race set down among us.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.