The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

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 mammary fixation is the most American of the sex fetishes.

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

...(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.

The Internet is democracy's revenge on democracy.

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.