“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)
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“No more fiction for us: we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.”
Sec. 624, as translated by Tobias Dantzig in Number, the Language of Science. Fourth edition, New York: Doubleday 1954, p 141. See discussion of this entry for details.
The Will to Power (1888)
Source: Neveryóna (1983), Chapter 12, “Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous” (p. 367)
“I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!”
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”
Source: The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949), Ch. 21, p. 465
As quoted in TED Global (29 June 2012). "I can hear colour" http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/29/looking-forward-looking-back-tedglobal-2012-recap/tg12_28236_d41_7199-2/
“One reason why money is a mystery to so many is the role of myth or fiction or convention.”
Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
“People who love science fiction really do love sex.”