"I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any other time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin, your mouth, your hands. I want you - like this - not hysterical with desire - but coldly and consciously - without dignity and without regrets - I want you - I have no self-respect to bargain with me and divide me - I want you - I want you like a an animal, or a cat on a fence, or a whore."

"Why were they ready to renounce their highest highest moments as a sin? Why were they willing to betray the best within them? What made them believe that this earth was a realm of evil where despair was their natural fate? He could not name the reason, but he knew that it had to be named. He felt it as a huge question mark... which was now his to answer."