[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.