Who said “The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives…”?

“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.”

“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”

“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.”

“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”

“Every harlot was a virgin once.”

“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”

“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

“By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.”

“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”

“Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.”

“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”