No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

Fantasy isn't something you run out of.