America teaches its children that every passion can be transmuted into an occasion to buy. - John Updike

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

"This got him to the door. There, ridiculously, he turned. It was only at the door, he decided in retrospect, that her conduct was quite in excusable: not only did she stand unncessarily close, but, by shifting the weight of her body to one leg and leaning her head sidewise, she lowered her height several inches, placing him in a dominating position exactly suited to the broad, passive shadows she must have known were on her face." (“Snowing in Greenwich Village")"

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.