“Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.”

“[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.”

“Monogamy is like croquet: you get the hang of it, eventually, but it’s never fun to play.”

“If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.”

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again”

“Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the waysomeone falling down in the street is funny.I entered a revolving door and emergedas a human being. When you think of meis my face electronically blurred?”