“It was almost enough to put a man off whoring.”
“A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants to see things; he wants to see everything, even how they make water. And while it's all very nice to know that a woman has a mind, literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed.”
“As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.”
“Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.”
“He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.”