Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. - Erica Jong

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

I have had the experience of having my sister get up at a meeting at Columbia University, where these scholars from all over the world were anointing Fear of Flying as a classic. And my sister got up and said, "Erica Jong has ruined my life — with her books."

Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.