“An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.”

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

“It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.”

“Sex, no matter how explosive and emotional, was just sex after all, at least until someone said or did something to make it more than that”

“An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.”

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”