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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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