“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

“Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.”

“Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other and enjoy both operations at once.”

“My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.”

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”

“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.”