Who said “Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard…”?

“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.”

“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”

“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.”

“Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”

“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”

“Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.”

“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.”

“God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.”

“It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”