More Quotes by Erica Jong
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
