Philip Roth has some good stuff in Sabbath's Theater.
"The core of seduction is persistence. Persistence, the Jesuit ideal. Eighty percent of women will yield under tremendous pressure if the pressure is persistent. You must devote yourself to fucking the way a monk devotes himself to God. Most men have to fit fucking in around the edges of what they define as more pressing concerns: the pursuit of money, power, politics, fashion, Christ knows what it might be--skiing. But Sabbath had simplified his life and fit the other concerns in around fucking."
The book's about a dirty old man.
"The core of seduction is persistence. Persistence, the Jesuit ideal. Eighty percent of women will yield under tremendous pressure if the pressure is persistent. You must devote yourself to fucking the way a monk devotes himself to God. Most men have to fit fucking in around the edges of what they define as more pressing concerns: the pursuit of money, power, politics, fashion, Christ knows what it might be--skiing. But Sabbath had simplified his life and fit the other concerns in around fucking."
The book's about a dirty old man.