Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.