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I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
Sep 29, 2025
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you.
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.
I believe in sex and death- two experiences that come once in a lifetime.
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.
The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
And the druids, they were into sex and death in an interesting night-time telly sort of way.
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
There have been only two taboos in the world: sex and death. It is very strange why sex and death have been the two taboos not to be talked about, to be avoided. They are deeply connected. Sex represents life because all life arises out of sex, and death represents the end. And both have been taboo - don't talk about sex and don't talk about death.
The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.
Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.
Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.
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