“Cherry blossoms fall, and for a twinkle there I have the will to live, but then Gomorrah calls.”— Xiu Xiu, open.spotify.com
“I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dmitri Karamazov, amazon.com
“Every day I think about untwisting and untangling these strings I'm in. And to lead a pure life. I look ahead at a clear sky, ain't gonna get there, but it's a nice dream, it's a nice dream.”— Iggy Pop, open.spotify.com
“I recall when after having had my fill of her after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred — I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com