With sociology one can do anything and call it work

The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.