...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

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.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

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

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