Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. - Robert A. Heinlein

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America — -and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

“Er, will your grandmother tell that fib for you?”
“I guess so. Yes, I'm sure she will. She says people have to tell little white fibs or else people couldn’t stand each other. But she says fibs were meant to be used, not abused.”
“She sounds like a sensible person.”

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.