Aldous Huxley Quotes

Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it is a window into each sex's unalloyed desires. Pornography for men is visual, anatomical, impulsive, floridly promiscuous and devoid of context and character. Erotica for women is far more likely to be verbal, psychological, reflective, serially monogamous and rich in context and character. Men fantasise about copulating with bodies; women fantasise about making love to people.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

You know he can’t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie screen - but absolute misery to have to put up with in real life.

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

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

Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...." Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.

You see, Dash -- I was never the girl in your head. And you were never the boy in my head. I think we both knew that. It's only when we try to make the girl or boy in our head real that the true trouble comes. I did that with Carlos, and it was a bad failure. Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.