“...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.”

“Charisma is a mysterious and powerful thing. I have it in limited supply, and that which I do have functions under highly specialized conditions.”

“... for what is love, if not the willingness to repeat oneself?”

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of Society, such that their very a- or immorality is what makes their art artistic rather than academic.”

“She sees now that the problem of the girl will never be solved, not as long as people have the capacity to reproduce themselves. Family is the problem that recurs.”

“The old man took out an extraordinarily beautiful and elegant handkerchief and gave it to her to dry her tears. It was the sort of handkerchief that one might be content to be judged by if it was all that remained of one after one's death.”

“To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)”