‘Through college she had been a feminist – more or less. She shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.’
‘Vicky says I’m crazy. She said worse things too last night. But who could blame her?’
‘Characteristically my wife refused to be drawn into the situation while I became obsessed with it.’
‘It sounded like the birth of tragedy.’
‘We do not believe they are sincerely trying to please us.’
‘Who knows: what I write I must eat, what I don’t write – eats me.’
‘As it was, my grandfather began helping me to paint without my having to ask him.’
‘Each day we re-enact, on ourselves, what was done to us.’
‘From a series of linked couples they become one continuous wave, larger all the time.’
‘She remembered being happy off and on that day, and then looking at things and finding it all unkind.’
