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 else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont.

If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.