Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.
The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship.