Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

Desire is no light thing.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.