“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.”

“I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?”

“Sex is like art: if you know what youre doing, you dont know what youre doing.”

“I dont like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”

“The past looks worse the closer you look at it.”

“Old age is the new childhood.”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”

“He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.”

“Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.”

“Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.”