The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women’s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

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.

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

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