The street that used to be the main drag of the red-light district; but now it's in transition; he can remember better times when this street was a menu of easy pleasures and scary appetites

Ask me who I am and I’ll say:
if you were to open my side with a spear,
only blood would come out

She took a large sip, and when she put the glass down, the glass carried a clear print, with little vertical breaks in the red, above the swaying transparent green-yellow liquid.

My mother believed sex is natural and wholesome. She liked that the Greeks built temples for Apollo and Dionysus side by side. Somewhere outside time, the two gods of mind and body are best friends.

[Hughes] did try to be a collector, but ultimately in the end, he lost all of these women. He didn't have what it took to hold onto them in any meaningful way. And over the course of time, he didn't really even want to be in the room with anybody.