Quotes About Taboo

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

I hate political correctness.

Political correctness kills discussion.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I just think political correctness is crap.

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Everybody knows what my sexual orientation is. I don't need to scream it out. I won't, only because I live in a country where I could possibly be jailed for saying this.

I talk about postpartum depression and all these things I don't hear a lot of women talking about on TV.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.

In my mind, scatological writing is a core of the English canon.

Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

In certain cultures, they'll eat an eyeball. I'm never gonna be that guy.

When people tell me to do a clean show, I'm like, 'Guys, I don't even understand your thoughts anymore.' What, you can't say a curse word? Nobody thinks that way!

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.