Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: ‚If the door’s shut, don’t come a-knockin.‘ But if it’s open and you’re walkin‘ by, feel free to say, ‚Hello.‘

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Understand: as children and young adults, we are taught to conform to certain codes of behavior and ways of doing things. We learn that being different comes with a social price.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I’ve used my femininity and my sexuality as a weapon and a tool… but that’s just natural.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

It’s very strange to go to cities like London and New York. People walk so quickly, they seem to be in a hurry all the time. And you don’t say ‚Hi‘ to everyone you meet, and you don’t smile to everyone you meet, because there’s just so many. Which is also very strange.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, ‚What kind of music do you make?‘, and you say, ‚Pop music.‘ You may as well have ‚I’m not cool‘ stamped on your forehead.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

I’m not lesbian; I’m not bisexual; I’m not straight. I’m just curious.

Throughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That’s what I hate most. I think it’s very demode.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?