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

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

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.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.

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

...(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.