All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.