Art seduces, but does not exploit.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.