Erica JongThinkers

Addiction is the disease of our age. It proceeds from our chronic spiritual hunger and is nourished by our focus on getting and spending, and on news and gossip outside ourselves.

Advice is often what one asks for when one already knows the answer but wishes she didn't.

Ambivalence is a tune with a danceable rhythm all its own.

A Bad marriage is that wherein friends, ironically enough are the invisible glue, and f we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving-instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Being single is unadvisable for a woman. There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Blame is a feeling that is at the same time miserable and wonderful, as one feels being forever in the right.

A Book is a box brimming with incendiary material. As such, it is the reader who strikes the match.