“Man will tell woman he will die for her, but I say, tell woman that you will die for her both physically and interior”

“You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But youll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, i...”

“Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.”

“I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should on...”

“A world between my fingers.”

“It's no wonder I became a monster, too.”

“Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others, could be drinking things and eating things and rubbing mine against theirs, speculating about this person or that, waving, indi...”

“Oh I could be out, rollicking in the ripeness of my flesh and others’, could be drinking things and eating things and rubbing mine against theirs, speculating about this person or that, waving, ind...”

“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.”