“When you are stripped of your primogeniture, the only way to prove your birthright is to take off your pants.” Bauvard, Evergreens Are Prudish

“I suddenly realize that I’m naked, which shouldn’t bother me since it’s the phone, but for some reason it does. “How’s it hanging?” Kyra asks and now I think I’m blushing. It’s just an expression, but jeez!” Barry Lyga, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl

“My favorite color on canvas is nudity.

” Jarod Kintz

“But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren’t a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It’s something like the gift all men wish for when they or young–…

“The idea of a belt holding my pants up seems so 20th century. Imagine a world where your pants are held high by your self-esteem. But it’s a silly notion, really, because in a world such as that, nobody would even wear pants.
” Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.” Rachilde, Monsieur Venus

“She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless—an interesting logic was at work there.” J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel.” Amy Cohen, The Late Bloomer’s Revolution: A Memoir

“There’s too much nudity on TV, and not enough on the radio.

” Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious