#passions

"I live for sex. I celebrate it, and relish the electricity of it, with every fibre of my being. I can see no better reason for being alive."

"I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary."

"In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up."

"People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!"

"Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate"you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite,"because, who cares about polite?"

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

"He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."

"I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion."