101 Quotes by Paul Russell

There must have been a time, before Internet porn, when there wasn’t a script. Nowadays, everybody knows exactly how sex is supposed to go.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

If certain places you came to in life felt right, then how many others were just as clearly the wrong place to be?

Romance always involved a bit of deceit.

Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one’s whole life in irreversible conflagration.

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks had watered theirs down to keep their heads lucid), and, last but not least, six or seven eager and receptive youths seated at one’s feet.