Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.