On Breaking Out

What is forbidden is scarier, sexier, unnightmared by the white-collar catologuers of crap. ‘Don’t do that’ makes for easy revolt. What is forbidden is hidden. To worm into the heart and mind until what one truly desires has been encased in dark walls of what one ought to desire, is the success of the serpent. Serpents of state, serpents of religion, serpents in the service of education, monied serpents, mythic serpents, weaving their lies backwards into history.

- Jeanette Winterson, "The Semiotics of Sex" pg 114-115, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effontery.