"I say we had best look our times and lands searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease. Never was there, perhaps, more hollowness at heart than at present, and here in the U…"

"I am a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding."

"I am not an advocate for a long life, but for a full one."

"If I had cut sex out I might just as well have cut everything out. The bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. The full scheme would no longer exist—it woul…"

"A man is not a whole man without a woman... and a woman is not a whole woman without a man."