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“What is your story, sir? I said.
That is the dilemma, he replied. I do not know if I am the teller or the tale.”

“Is his story the result of his madness or its cause?”

“We seek to care and to console. We do not seek to cure. Madness cannot be cured; it is a disease of the soul.”

“There is a view that love, because it begins so spontaneously, is also simple. Yet if love engages our whole being and affects our whole world, how can it be simple? The day of simple are done - if they ever existed. Love is not a pristine planet before contaminants and pollutants, before the arrival of Man. Love is a disturbance among the disturbed.”

“I don’t say anything because he is the centre of his world. I have affected him and he never wonders how he has affected me. He is in control of what he creates. He hasn’t created me and so he feels uncertain.”

“I love you, he says.
I want to hold this moment. I want to believe it. I want his love to have enough salt in it to float me. I don’t want to be swimming for my life. I want to trust him. I don’t trust him.”

“A man who wants to be without his body. And I am holding his body in my left head.”

“Is this what I am to you? I said.
A hand? No.
A sex object.
Don’t you like what we do? (He took his penis out of his trousers.)
You know I do. (I spat in my palm.)
Then why deny pleasure?
To avoid pain. (He takes four minutes this way.)”

“I watched him talk. I love to watch him talk. He likes to be watched. He’s a showman.”

“I wish TO KNOW why all that ails mankind must be the fault of womankind?”