As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
Review of Palimpsest, p. 281 - The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (2001)