England is an aquarium, not a nation.
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can’t reach that person again or that place.
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Divorce: fission after fusion.
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won’t forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we’ll include them in our future.
Computer dating? It’s terrific if you’re a computer!
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love.
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I’m writing.
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
Pain isn’t always the enemy.
There’s a thin line between collectivity and chaos...
It really doesn’t take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I’m not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they’re dull.