Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Europeans are quarrelsome.

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.

I stay in one room, and it's easier to live there, to control it, to make it warm. It seems to me a convenient way to live, and it's cheap.