“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

“Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

“Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

“Life's like a mayonnaise soda
And life's like space without room
And life's like bacon and ice cream
That's what life's like without you”

Lou Reed (1942–2013) American musician

“Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man? — a world without a sun.”

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer

“If customers leave without a purchase, you have not failed. But if customers leave without a smile, you have.”

Ron Kaufman (1956) American author and consultant

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Sex education is the only subject that will arouse the mind without illuminating it.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic