“The forbidden word can be provocative. But after a while it becomes monotonous rather than arousing.”— Toni Morrison, theparisreview.org
“I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.”— Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski, Larry Flynt, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com
“We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!”— John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Marlon Brando, imdb.com
“Yeah! That's how they talk. You know, everyone's either a bastard or a son of a bitch. Yeah, it's like, uh, ‘Boy, that son of a bitch Boggs can really hit, uh?!’”— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“When I first started out, I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.”— Larry Flynt, cnn.com
“The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.”— Rod Serling, en.wikipedia.org