Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?

...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.