“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.”

André Bazin

Image: François Truffaut directing Claude Jade in Domicile Conjugal, 1970

“Women never bought Freud’s idea of penis envy. Who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”

Natalie Angier

“Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. Exciting, pleasurable sex can take place between two people who do not even know each other. Yet the vast majority of males in our society are convinced that their erotic longing indicates who […]

“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 […]

“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”

Francis Ford Coppola

“Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy. A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but often of free and secret love; and in this respect, too, the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry, and another for life.”

Ellen Key (1849 – 1926) Swedish […]

“We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”

Robert Wilensky

“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!”

John Waters

“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.”

Henry Rollins

“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work… you’ll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”

 Eric Maisel