“The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.”

“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy -- is that very "most advantageous advantage" which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms. And how do these wiseacres know that man wants a normal, a virtuous choice? What has made them conceive that man must want a rationally advantageous choice? What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. And choice, of course, the devil only knows what choice.”

“What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.”

“He wants to be the One we treasure most. Most of all, He wants you. All of you.”

“If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”