The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things real.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.