I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial gossip among men especially if it is about women is called theory or idea or fact.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

The connections between and among women are the most feared the most problematic and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

You know it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

He was gifted with the sly sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

In the months leading up to World War II there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.