“Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power.”

“She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.”

“Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.”

“I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity”

“We instinctively feel an overwhelming desire to take sides: organic or conventional, fair or free trade, "pure" or genetically engineered food, wild or farm-raised fish. Like most things in life, though, the sensible answer lies somewhere between the extremes, somewhere in that dull but respectable placed called the pragmatic center. To be a centrist when it comes to food is, unfortunately, to be a radical.”

“I think desire is the most powerful force in the universe.”