Erica Jong

It’s hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Erica Jong

It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.

Erica Jong

It’s important to know what you’re going to spend your life on, and the only way you’re going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Erica Jong

It’s impossible to generalize about sexuality – even one’s own. The only way to keep it pure is to keep it unspoken. Keep it out of words. Words are not where sexuality lives. Without privacy, there is no ecstasy.

Erica Jong

It’s only when you’re forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Erica Jong

Keeping a journal implies hope.

Erica Jong

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Erica Jong

Life is passion. But now I know what passion costs, so it’s hard to be quite so carefree anymore.

Erica Jong

Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.

Erica Jong

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Erica Jong