She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from;The scent of these arm-pits, aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

The sinful desire of the flesh leads to uncleanness, sexual immorality, and sensuality.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself coarse, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

He could distinguish the approach of Milly like that of a police car from a long way off. Whistles instead of sirens warned him of her coming.

I could walk with Jack [John F. Kennedy] into a room full of a hundred women, fellow Congressman and friend Frank Thompson said, and at least eighty-five of them would be willing to sacrifice their honor and everything else if they could get into a pad with him.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.