“A person who is another man’s slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.”— Michael Bassey Johnson
“She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT.”— Angela Carter
“Anger is like sex urge, once gratified, the inner voice calls you a stinking fool.”— Michael Bassey Johnson
“Once you are defiled, you can’t get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over and over again.”— Michael Bassey Johnson
“Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.”— Michel de Montaigne
“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”— Michael Bassey Johnson