Sally Grace’s Reviews > Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A. > Status Update

In France, they more or less lay their cards on the table and ennoble love affairs for the creative adventures they are, because for most people, these are the only creative adventures they'll ever have. The only chance they'l ever get to touch the face of heaven.

Poor Shawn thinks he likes silver rooms and gay Southern adventures when he really likes to lie in the sand.

You know, when you come to think about it, it's a wonder women have anything to do with men at all, and no surprise that men have devised all kinds of schemes to bind women to them, like not giving them any money. If you had your choice of sleeping with a beautiful soft creature or a large hard one, which would you pick? I mean, if they both had the same amount of money?

Bottom of this page… “you know when you have dinner with a girlfriend, you’re going to come home a whole human being”

People nowadays get upset at the idea of being in love with a city, especially Los Angeles. People think you should be in love with other people or your work or justice. I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.

"You be the man and that way you get to be the shit." I had a sudden transplant of sense as I imagined myself "the man" and just how creepy I bet I could be: dodging emotional entanglements and lying and otherwise having a lovely time. Forgetting to phone.