Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.
The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience.
Writing, to me, conjures up a physical act, like running or eating.
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.
Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.
I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter, I go crazy. I move like a monkey. I've wet myself, I've come in my pants writing.
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Love is what makes sex more than masturbation. If there is no love even if you are really with a partner you masturbate with a partner.
Like many people, I am addicted to the physical act of reading.
I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.
The first five times that you bang someone and the last million times are two different worlds.
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.
You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.
Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.
Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.
You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
Love is not necessary for sex.
Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.
Most sex is not really intimate.
