Silvia

“I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.”
― Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium

“The problem with secret crushes: in the absence of requital the love turns bitter.”
― Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story

“If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.”
― Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story