Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty

Why Do Long Marriages Occasionally Endow Their Inhabitants With A Rare Kind Of Equilibrium Otherwise Almost Unknown In Human Relations? My Guess Is That The Value Of The Moment Has At Last Overshadowed The Long History Of Resentments, Betrayals, And Boredom.

The Married Are Those Who Have Taken The Terrible Risk Of Intimacy And, Having Taken It, Know Life Without Intimacy To Be Impossible.

Quoting, Like Smoking, ... Is A Dirty Habit To Which I Am Devoted. But Then ... I Am A Professor Of English Literature; It Is An Occupational Hazard.

To Recommend That Women Become Identical To Men, Would Be Simple Reversal, And Would Defeat The Whole Point Of Androgyny, And For That Matter, Feminism: In Both, The Whole Point Is Choice.

Is There Any Vanity Greater Than The Vanity Of Those Who Believe Themselves Without It?