Alexander Smith Quotes

It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

I like surprises.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it.

I live by the seat of my pants.

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?

Passion should always trump common sense.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Never mind the use--do it!

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

Pleasure itself is not a vice

If it's planned, it's boring