The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.

To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.

It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike