One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.