[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.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

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

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

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.