Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

No adultery is bloodless.

Heroes and heroines don't commit adultery.

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

I would like to read some books: I don't have time; I would like to continue working on my autobiography.

I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.

In fact Sarah Palin has created more jobs than Obama has. She created eleven jobs fact-checking at the AP just for the Palin autobiography.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

I spent most of this afternoon writing a new introduction for my autobiography.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.