Alan Moore Quotes

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Sex is the main way we exist on the planet. It's an essential part of life.

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.

I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

Every day is another something that comes along.

I like having a laugh, I like feeling really comfortable on set, so with a sex scene, it's always really planned out for me beforehand.

Death scenes are hard. Sex scenes are hard.

In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

You never have sex the way people do in the movies. You don't do it on the floor, you don't do it standing up, you don't always have all your clothes off, you don't happen to have on all the sexy lingerie. You know, if anybody ever ripped my clothes, I'd kill them.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull

Sex outdoors is great. I'm not an exhibitionist, but I love the possibility that people might be able to see.