Shana Alexander Quotes
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The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love.
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Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
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A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
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At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.
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Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.
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I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.
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A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
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Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
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In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.
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As a general rule, fans and idols should always be kept at arm's length, the length of the arm to be proportionate to the degree of sheer idolatry involved. Don't take a Beatle to lunch. Don't wait up to see if the Easter Bunny is real. Just enjoy the egg hunt.
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
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Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
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Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to fountain to ruin, a single fly at a banquet, not knowing where to light.
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The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
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The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
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We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.
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Good drama should sandpaper the mind.