People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

I always go for the sex and violence, ... If you can be great, you should talk about love and death. And if you can only be good, you should talk about sex and violence. Those are the things people are perennially interested in.

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

from trading in sex ... as well as violence to exploiting material ripped 'straight from the day's headlines' to casting, if not a completely sympathetic eye, at least an emphatic one on its lead gangster ...