We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

There are two options for any society: total prohibition as in a totalitarian state, or total license. Both avoid the ardours of decision. Both have the attraction of certainty. The difficult option is to decide where the line should be drawn and this, surely, is the responsiblity of any civilized and democratic country.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?