Marco Vassi > Quotes

“The most invidious myth of our civilization is the idea that any form of social contract can substitute for unrelenting moment-to-moment awareness by each individual.”
― Marco Vassi, The Saline Solution

“Degeneracy is the only freedom fascism allows.”
― Marco Vassi, The Saline Solution

“Erotic literarature is literature in which eroticism is the novel. It focuses on that. It also implies a certain degree of description, a certain hard core. And to find novels in which you have plot, character, literary quality, plus detailed and real moving descriptions of fucking is a rarity.


There is a vibration which takes place in the erotic realm, which translating it into something else, demeans it and destroys it. You need real poetry to talk about that sort of thing.”
― Marco Vassi, A Driving Passion

“The only true revolutionary is the one who affects a lifestyle which takes the imminent destruction of the entire species as a basic premise.”
― Marco Vassi, The Saline Solution

“...getting to know 'more and more about less and less until finally they knew everything about nothing'.”
― Marco Vassi, The Stoned Apocalypse

“Like so many he was dissatisfied with his job, and had effectively removed himself from all connection with any community beyond his neighborhood, treating all world and national and state politics as some distant obscene melodramas being worked out amongst humorless and petty creatures.”
― Marco Vassi, Contours of Darkness

“She understood that some basic decency would keep him from ever attaining a position of power or wealth, and after their move to Berkeley had made peace with her fate.”
― Marco Vassi, Contours of Darkness

“The mayor, he thinks he runs the city,' the old man continued, 'but all he does is prance around and look pretty. Nobody with any real power listens to him. He's somebody to put in front of the television cameras so the cattle think their vote means something. No, it's the ones who control the life systems and the death systems who are in command, only most of them are so stupid, the don't realize it.”
― Marco Vassi, The Erotic Comedies

“They moved into an embrace with the loving knowledge only possible between those who have fought many sexual wars together and have learned compassion through necessity. Without ever having articulated it as such, they shared a deep respect for the difficulties that man and woman share in any attempt at joining together.”
― Marco Vassi, Contours of Darkness

“The biggest problem in the country is sex. People are either puritans or pigs.”
― Marco Vassi, Contours of Darkness