...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

Nymphets do not occur in polar regions.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.