“Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.”

“The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.”

“We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.”

“The words I Love You kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textu...”

“his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.”