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

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.

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

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

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.