“Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.”

“All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)”

“To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.”

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.”

“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature?”

“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideration better than the sums appropriated for controlling it and suppressing it? Where it is the object of such attentions, literature gains an extraordinary authority, inconceivable in countries where it is allowed to vegetate as an innocuous pastime, without risks.”