Alvin “Al” Goldstein was an American pornographer. He is known for normalizing hardcore pornography in the United States.
He was described in his obituary in The New York Times as “a cartoonishly vituperative amalgam of Borscht Belt comic, free-range social critic and sex-obsessed loser who seemed to embody a moment in New York City’s cultural history: the sleaze and decay of Times Square in the 1960s and ‘70s.” (via Wikipedia)
On Love:
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
On Life:
Married life is an existence with bars around it.
On Death:
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don’t feel very good.
To date or not to date that is the question. It’s almost as important as Shakespeare’s to be or not to be which deals with death.
On Success:
On Religion:
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
On Marriage:
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it – it can be salvaged.
On Belief:
You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
Other Quotes:
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.
I refuse to be silenced.
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.