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.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

There are two cinemas: the films we have actually seen and the memories we have of them.

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

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

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

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.