“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is t...”

“I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.”

“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.”

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”