Hell?

And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And tender. I’m not used to tender. It’s a fossil, that word....

The shots left a hard ringing sound within the closeness of the brick walls. Terry held the pistol at arm’s length on a level with his eyes–the Russian Tokarev resembling an old-model Colt .45, big...

If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!

I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire, because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath,...

…if you’ve never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don’t know what profanity is all about!

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.

I do not believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity, thank you.

As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I’d keep the...

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

Oooo…He’s being a saucy motherfu*ker tonight. He does wrong and I’m the one who gets treated like the whore of Babylon. Fine, he wants a show I’ll give him a damn show.

Play it fuckin’ loud!

I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.

I don’t need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I’ll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

He shook his head,’Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.”Is that still your favourite word?’ asked Isola interestedly, ‘I like “verisimilitude”. Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is “cellar door”,

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass.

Scummer, pox and wound rot!” roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. “Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and...

You have to be mad in the language you’re mad in.

If you can’t say “Fuck” you can’t say, “Fuck the government.

If the passage absolutely demands cursing, be moderate. A little of it goes a long way. I’ve seen beginning writers pepper curse words through sentence after sentence.’If you don’t -blanking- get your -blanking-blank-blank- in to...

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”[Mark Twain, a Biography]

…DAMNATION!’No device of the printer’s art, not even capital letters, can indicate the intensity of that shriek of rage. Emerson is known to his Egyptian workers by the admiring sobriquet of Father of Curses. The...

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don’t want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.