“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”

“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?”

“At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others. ”

“Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.”

“My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.”

“...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.”

“Security and safety were the reward of dullness.”