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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.