The film was heavy on oral sex. Each time there came a scene with fellatio or cunnilingus or sixty-nine, the whole theater resounded with lapping and sucking noises. Hearing all these sounds, I couldn't help but wonder what a curious planet I lived on.

To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to him.

It's a funny thing sensing someone else's sex drive. After a while, you get to mistaking it for your own.

Girls have periods and boys wank. Everybody.