“Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.”
“...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.”
“I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”
“The thrust or stab is risky because it can kill and yet not stop. In most street encounters, killing is not desired, but stopping is. The cut will stop but not kill.”
“Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.”
“When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse.”