“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

“Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?”

Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere

“With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.”

Alfred de Musset

“How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?”

Katherine Mansfield

“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”

T. S. Eliot

“There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.”

H.L. Mencken

“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”

Max Beerbohm

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”

Dean Spade

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed.”

Michelangelo

“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes.

All things are possible.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”

From The Egyptian Book of the Dead