“What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Fe...”

“There they are. Two girls built like pagan fertility dolls, resting on their haunches, caked from head-toe in the multi-shaded come of every man who gave his offering before me”

“Viagra, Valtrex, Valium... you fuck enough strangers, you're taking a blue pill with a "V" on it.”

“I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse”

“The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.”

“I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.”

“All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others.”

“They were looking at videos, and the woman was giggling quietly, as they often do in porn stores, unable to believe what theyre seeing, the monuments men have built to vaginas and to the very notio...”

“Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing...”

“Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography ...”

“Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.”

“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified ...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”