Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.

All men by nature desire to know.

...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

When she said his name, it sounded like honey tastes.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.

- <i>Sweet Thing</i>

First she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.

Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals.

Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives.

Men see what they expect to see,

Les hommes ont la rage de vouloir apprendre ce qui doit leur faire de la peine.