Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

I think I have a repressed bent for the military, I like discipline without question, specific schedules and duties.

I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from them.