How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.