What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.