“Everything is fair in love and art.”

“I swooned again I had that moment of falling in love with reading again.”

“I couldnt admit to any of the boys I hung out with that I wanted to fuck em, so my erotic life was in my imagination and in the body.”

“The best way of writing sex scenes is to do the first draft, orgasm, and then start editing. You can be objective post-orgasm.”

“I hope for what I always hope for as a writer: a critical but kind reader. I think that is what we all hope for.”

“The swing between confronting the dangerous or brutal and the beautiful or the kind is one of the elements of being human that I have battled with all my life. That mixture of love and savagery is ...”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”

“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young wom...”