Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.