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

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.