Paul Bowles Quotes

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

To talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

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.

Kids and adults have sex for many, many reasons... Put out a question box.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

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

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

Increasing globalization of the world [is] … affecting the ways in which sexuality is understood, experienced, and regulated.

Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.

It is futile to go against human nature.

My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.

Most men cannot write good sex. I tried one time years ago and showed it to my wife, and she felt like laughing.

There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.

People are judgmental about sex, but everyone has their own moral code. So unless you are hurting people, who are we to say what's right?

The urge to push the concept of sex and sexuality into the fringes of the human experience is so bizarre to me.

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.