Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.