All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.