No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Art is born of humiliation.