The mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Movies both reflect and create social conditions, but their special charm is to offer fantasy clothes as virtual reality, a world where people consume without the tedium of labor. Characters float in a world where the bill never comes due ... and we wonder why we're a debtor nation!

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.