“Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will”

“A women's greatest asset is her beauty.”

“Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.”

“The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”