“It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.”

“Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didnt know the difference between the two, but this was more co...”

“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...”

“It goes without saying that a great majority of men are sex addicts, or would be if they could manage to get laid.”

“I could have something like an encounter out there a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didnt know how to process.”

“Real men dont need porn.”

“Making and thinking about somebody is special... you go in the tracks of saying that you are horrible and not anymore special.”

“I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.”

“If you read something, what you have written you ain't gonna like it...- It sounds horrible... so write don't read your own stuff.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”