In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?