Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.

We are all potential murderers, and we are all potential rapists and abusers.

Most pornographic images are simply too repulsive.

For people who are desperate and searching, sexuality on the Internet offers an incredible release.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Sweet girl, if I told you everything, life would lose all mystery.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

Being a heart throb would be crazy.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive songs that sound happy.