Great Throughts Treasury

"Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more."

"In a state of war each sincere citizen feels responsibility to society in the abstract, and none to the people he kills."

"A meal can be an erotic experience in itself."

"An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card."

"A women's greatest asset is her beauty."

"Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher."

"I do not believe the fable that men read travel books to escape from reality: they read to escape into it, from a crazy wonderland of armaments, cant, political speeches at once insincere and illiterate, propaganda, and social injustice which the lunacy of humanity has constructed over a period of years."

"Anarchism is that political philosophy which advocates the maximization of individual responsibility and the reduction of concentrated power regal, dictatorial, parliamentary: the institutions which go loosely by the name of "government" to a vanishing minimum."

"Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine."

"Seldom write when they can kiss."

"The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life."

"The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle."

"Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire."

"Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will"

"There are only two guidelines in good sex, Don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and don?t balk them if you can help it."

"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."