“Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.”

“A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.”

“Why do some men seek pleasurable satisfaction in sleeping with many women when they all have the same hole?”

“In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.”

“You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.”

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”