Isn't it curious how completely ignorant we all are of the most important part of our bodily mechanism. It is really criminal. Yet there is no nation in the world that doesn't surround sex with fantastic walls. Of course ours are sillier than any-but not much.

The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos (ed. Harvard Common Press, 1973) - ISBN: 9780876450734