“You may have noticed we have no sex lives. As a result there's lots of chocolate in this house.”

“Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.”

“Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do--like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.”

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

“... one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”

“Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?”