“The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep”

“The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.”

“Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds meI spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.”

“When you've committed yourself to violence it takes an almost inhuman effort to stop short. It's one of those things that once you've started need to be finished, rather like coitus, interrupting t...”

“Pregnancy is a natural event, but you lessen the chances conception can occur with an unnatural diet.”

“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was thinking of. It would be a monolo...”

“Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreov...”