June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.