John Valentine

“Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier than Northern boys. Marines are easier than Masturbation.”

“For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of "No.”

“Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get.”

“Blake inspires instant, tender Blakelust in everyone he meets. All of his beauties are meant to be touched, and he likes to be touched.”

“I am not the kind of person I would ever go to bed with.”

“What's the use of being sexually liberated, if no one else wants you?”

“I've had Good and I've had Bad, and the worst I had was Wonderful!”

“Every day we make the whole world new... Or else grow old.”