“life is long between the desire and the spasm.”

“Between the desireAnd the spasm,Between the potencyAnd the existence,Between the essenceAnd the descent,Falls the Shadow.This is the way the world ends.from "The Hollow Man”

“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.”

“The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.”

“...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.”

“I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”