“I like simple men and complicated women.”

“slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle”

“The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the market of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system.”

“Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.”

“Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.”

“Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.”

“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”