All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

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

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.