Quotes About Taboo

What would the fearsome Lou Reed insist on? Boys? Girls? Drugs? No, kielbasa.

It was almost like discovering that Enid Blyton, in her spare time, had turned to pornography.

They had an open marriage. Sex was no big deal. I wouldn't be surprised if Charles didn't get off watching this. The two of them were as bad as each other.

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Yisrael Beiteinu is a party that puts on the table all the problems that people are afraid to speak about.

I'm very fond of drugs.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I mean I'm one of those people that laugh at a funeral. And it's always the worst time, but there's always a place to find something funny.

In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.

We all engage in things forbidden and yearn for things denied.

Though what is as sexy, as sweetly taboo as money? So secret, so unspeakable even among dear friends? How much did daddy leave you? How much did you get for that painting? How did you buy that fancy car with no visible means of employment? I have friends who tell me about every kinky sex act, the lies they tell, the crimes they commit, their intestinal complaints. But they shut up like bad shellfish when you ask what they paid for their house.

There's something weird and sexual about the way some people talk about God--have you noticed?

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

I came from a family in Texas who simply never spoke about money.

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

Everything that has to do with sex is somehow... it's the best thing in the world, and it's still the one thing people don't want you to talk about.

I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage.

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