 He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood. |
| True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. |
| American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them. |
| People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. |
| I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. |
| The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. |
| Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. |
| Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. |
| Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. |
| Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs. |
| Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. |
| In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. |
