“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”

“…my belief in the sacrament of the Eucharist is simple: without touch, God is a monologue, an idea, a philosophy; he must touch and be touched, the tongue on flesh, and that touch is the result of the monologues, the idea, the philosophies which led to faith; but in the instant of the touch there is no place for thinking, for talking; the silent touch affirms all that, and goes deeper: it affirms the mysteries of love and mortality.”

“Words are sexier than flesh.”

“None, so far as I know, will affirm, or at least with any show of reason maintain, that anatomy, so far as that goes, is in favor of flesh-eating.”

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

“Let us cry, "All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"”

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”

“For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.”

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.”

“[About pigs] … of all animals their flesh most resembles human flesh, which is somewhat disconcerting when you consider that more than 40 percent of all meat raised in the world is pork.”