I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.