Couples

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.