A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort.

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?