First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to...

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

A director’s dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché’s are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.

Fatally, the term ‘barbarian’ is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any...

I picked up the large lapel button richly worked in purple, green and yellow plastic. ‘January 1997,’ it announced, ‘Day of Visionaries.’ Beneath the slogan was a portrait of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And...

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, ‘unity’ of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: ‘The subject,’ says one handbook for amateur photographers, ‘must be simple, free...

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

When the co-captain left, he stood up and started again getting loud and using vulgarity, … This is not a terrorist thing, just an intoxicated person. They gave him two chances and diverted the plane.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Was my guide a person who would expect what is vulgary called a “tip”? Or was his position so high that even to offer it would be an insult?

How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

Manlius … took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world,...

If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the...

Todo éxito es una apología de lo vulgar. Cualquier libro que rebasa los cien ejemplares es un fracaso para el buen gusto. ,O qué habría de pensarse de un mismo libro leído simultáneamente por cien...

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

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....

You could have fucked me ’til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, ‘too ginormous for my snatch’ pecker fell off. And I’d still no way never ever in a thousand years sell, loan, sample you...

[O]ne man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.