In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.

That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

I am for people. I can't help it.

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.