You are being dishonest if you are not writing about sex in your book. It is very natural and normal. Well, I have earned the name of 'dirty old man' but there is not much sex in my books. What I have written is very serious stuff - biography, history, religious texts, etc.

What is obscene about pornography is not an excess of sex, but the fact that it contains no sex at all.

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

There is no reason to write pornography when your own sex life is good. Why waste time writing about it?

To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. … No eunuch ever wrote a book.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

No children were abused in the making of this show. No one was hurt and no Islamic cartoons were used. You know, for those of you that can't take a fucking joke.

I didn't skip the smut. The author went to the trouble of writing it, after all. I did not feel to make notes for possible application later on but I also never wondered if the author was a virgin raised in an abandoned hentai warehouse, which is always a possibility for modern pornographers and erotica writers.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground -- situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

I don't, for example, conjure up characters for the express purpose of despising them, of breaking their humps in public. I used to be astounded at Henry James et al., so nice nasty about it too, soooo refined. Gothic is of no interest to me. I try not to lend energy to building grotesqueries, depicting morbid relationships, dramatizing perversity.

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

There’s no sex in the products

There were never any characters that looked like me or my sisters or my girlfriends…Our stories needed to be told.