As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

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.