“Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats”

“Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?”

“It happens that I despise that locution, "having sex," which describes something a good deal more mechanical than making love and a good deal less fun than fucking.”

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”

“It often happens that a human is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.”

“The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.”