Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they a… - Kurt Vonnegut

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.

Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.

“The world can't afford sex anymore.”
“Of course it can afford sex,” said Billy. “All it can't afford anymore is reproduction.”
“Then why the laws?”
“They’re bad laws,” said Billy. “If you go back through history, you'll find that the people who have been most eager to rule, to make the laws, to enforce the laws and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here on earth—those people have forgiven themselves and their friends for anything and everything. But they have been absolutely disgusted and terrified by the natural sexuality of common men and women.”