“I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.”
“By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.”
“What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.”
“When left unsatisfied, lust becomes violence.”
“No amount of culture or civilization can subdue or hide the wanton violence in man.”
“Violence is as American as cherry pie”