Literature Is All, Or Mostly, About Sex.

The Purpose Of Education Is To Fit Us For Life In A Civilised Community, And It Seems To Follow From The Subjects We Study That The Two Most Important Things In Civilised Life Are Art And Science.

It Seems Priggish Or Pollyannaish To Deny That My Intention In Writing The Work Was To Titillate The Nastier Propensities Of My Readers. My Own Healthy Inheritance Of Original Sin Comes Out In The Book And I Enjoyed Raping And Ripping By Proxy. It Is The Novelist’s Innate Cowardice That Makes Him Depute To Imaginary Personalities The Sins That He Is Too Cautious To Commit For Himself.

The Practice Of Fiction Can Be Dangerous: It Puts Ideas Into The Head Of The World.

It Had Been A Wonderful Evening And What I Needed Now, To Give It The Perfect Ending, Was A Little Of The Ludwig Van.

Every Dogma Has Its Day.