I don't know what anybody else in the world would want to thank America for, but man, it [jazz] works. What I like about it - and what public health people ought to like about it - it's safe sex.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.