“I rated the drug Demerol over sex as the ultimate pleasure at one time. Now I don’t have access to either.”
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
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Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“I have lived such an unnatural life, devoid of love, sex, and pleasure.”
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Perspective on incelness

On including sexual themes in his writings in “Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6088/samuel-r-delany-the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany in The Paris Review (Summer 2011)

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006

“The time I once lost in pleasure I now lose in suffering.”

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