Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
—Eric Hoffer
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
—Audre Lorde
Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
—Charles Bukowski
Despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.
—Tom Robbins
If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
—J. P. Donleavy
You wake up one day and say, "You know what, I don't think I ever need to sleep or have sex again." Congratulations, you're ready to have children.
—Ray Romano
My wife said she'd like to have sex in the backseat of the car . . . and she wanted me to drive.
—Rodney Dangerfield
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
—Amy Lowell
It is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people — and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.
—Kathleen Winsor
That was a very racy remark for Gladys, whose idea of wild sex was Fred Astaire loosening his tie.
—Susan Isaacs
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.
—Bob Rubin
Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
—Garrison Keillor
It's not a compliment to know a man wants to sleep with you. It's only a compliment when he will go to great lengths for you.
—Donna Lynn Hope
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
—R. D. Laing
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
—Aldous Huxley