Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

Most sex is not really intimate.

Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.