Collected for my column, Bait and Switch at BackWash. Will be fun to look for more. I'd forgotten about these.
"Many women believe that men are happier the more frequently they can have intercourse. This is not entirely accurate. What men truly enjoy is being aroused by their partner and remaining in an aroused state for a long period of time, while delaying orgasm as long as possible. This is a continuing theme of most of the best erotic literature, which in the story line, the woman is able to arouse a man, and keep him at a level just below that needed to achieve an orgasm. Women who have learned how to achieve this for their husbands generally have very happy husbands and solid long-term relationships." David Sebringsil
"We all enter this world the same way: naked, screaming, soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there"
- Dana Gould
"To play needs much work. But when we experience the work as play, then it is not work anymore."
- Peter Brook
"Love well, whip well."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."
- Alfred Hitchcock
"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain."
- Lord Byron
"Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them."
- Carl Jung
Zen Koan: "A thorn pricks you: It tells us the void is empty"
"There are no gains without pains"
- Benjamin Franklin
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
- Former Vice President Dan Quayle
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
- M. Kathleen Casey
"Think of three Things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
- Benjamin Franklin
"It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires."
- Marquis de Sade
"The only abnormality is the inability to love."
- Anais Nin
"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Most welcome, bondage, for thou art a way, I think, to liberty."
- William Shakespeare
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
- Frank Herbert, from Dune
"The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure."
- Marquis de Sade
"There's nothing either good or bad ... but thinking makes it so!"
- William Shakespeare
"There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it."
- Alfred Hitchock
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
- Oscar Wilde
