“A blanket could be used to suffocate our secret desires. And what do I secretly desire? I desire suffocation, and that is why I must suffocate my desire. ”
“The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.”
“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”
“Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.”
“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?”
“Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.”