The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.