Quotes About Taboo

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

A forbidden love that ended badly.

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the lid off, where would we be?'

There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.

I think the conversation about sex is one that never grows old and is one that people are always drawn to.

It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to you.

The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions . . . that is the secret of its popularity.

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

I, myself, have killed six people. All random, all undetected, no way to trace them to me. And, let me tell you, there's nothin' like it. It's a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you're thinking. 'Aw, he's a comedian. He's just sayin' that stuff.' Good. That's exactly what I want you to think.

It was my uncle who taught me about the birds and the bees. He sat me down one day and said, 'Remember this, George, the birds fuck the bees.' Then he told me he once banged a girl so hard her freckles came off.

There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.

I think these pipe-smokers oughta just move to the next level and go ahead and suck a dick. There's nothing wrong with suckin' dicks. Men do it, women do it; can't be all bad if everybody's doin' it. I say, Drop the pipe, and go to the dick! That's my advice. I'm here to help.

The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work.

In some company it's perfectly all right to prick your finger, but very bad form to finger your prick.

Do you know why it is that when a rancher fucks a sheep he does it at the edge of a cliff? It's so the sheep will push back.