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“Well,” Alex said between breaths, “don't you think we've confirmed our big theory that porn is a blueprint for sex? I mean, we look at a photograph and get aroused, yet we still have our wits. But just now I became so distracted by what you were doing to me, I totally lost my perspective.”

I write and Brandy reads.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

“Your perspective is all fucked up,” Brandy says. “All you can talk about is trash that’s already happened.”

'I'm going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you'll see what I mean.'

"I think in this case it's the objectived-people-look-better syndrome. Photos are perfect by nature. A kid's just, well, workable?"

'Obviously there could be zillions of species out there in the universe. I'm sure UFO cultists used to be curious, period, like anyone else, but now they've thought...too hard? Their thoughts are over-elaborate and impractical. They can't think, well, three-dimensionally. Maybe I'm like them in a certain way, but I'm much more pragmatic. I mean, I know there's no God.'

'And it's strange to be forced to acknowledge my body exists because I'm sure I've neglected the thing for so long that it's totally fucked up and full of cancer or AIDS or something. Maybe if I stop writing this down, I'll stop worrying.'

'Good, because as far as I'm concerned, love's what you feel for someone you don't know very well, if at all.'