Quotes on Masturbation

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.