You are the Perfect Young Man: honest, clean, virile.
Edmund White, Our Young Man.
“Had he already inspired a passion in some strangers heart?”
“They all said the way to a mans heart was through his asshole.”
“Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise.”
“He was taking Kevins cherry! The words made him harder and made him feel privileged, masterful, married. He thought how many men would pay unlimited amounts to have this inaugurating experience wit...”
“He thought to himself, Ill never be this perfect again, an idea that made him sad.”
“Wasnt it correct in America to call a man handsome rather than beautiful?”
“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”
“The sky is an enormous man.”
“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”
“There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should lo...”
“Don't aim for perfection. Aim for 'better than yesterday'.”
“What was happening to them was that every bad time produced a bad feeling that in turn produced several more bad times and several more bad feelings, so that their life together became crowded with...”
“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”
“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.Ive never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I mig...”
“But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.”