“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”

Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex […]

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

Randy Pausch  The Last Lecture

“Curiosity doesn’t matter any more. These days people don’t want to be transported to emotional territories where they don’t know how to react.”

Hector Babenco

Sad, but true.

“There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.”

Jerzy Kosinski

“The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.”

 Helmut Newton

“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.”

H.L. Mencken