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.

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

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.

...(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.