Quotes About Verboten

Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much story and that should be fog-bound and shrouded in heavy symbolism, including the phallic, like a sort of covoluted charade. Symbolism now carries the day, it's the one true ladder of literary heaven.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

My mother once said that sex was only good if it was dirty and verboten and I've never found anything to disprove this.

No mischlinge in journalism, the creative arts, the performing arts, literature . . . Culture is verboten.

Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn't in the world. So we weren't in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that. Brilliant, really. World War II was toirmiscthe, he said, which people had to look up but basically turned out to be verboten in Irish. Twitter went crazy, saying it was shameful and backward, but back then twitter was only spoken by birds.