Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
The total person is first disclosed. . . in areas of life that are lived frivolously.
Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.
I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.
A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
You want to be able to say [to Ethan Hawke's character], "Dude, it's okay," but maybe it's not. Maybe he's not a good person. I don't know. That's the thing about people. There is no real good guy or bad guy [in A Valley Of Violence]. It's all context.
It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.