Quotes about Desire

I can't keep that up...finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world.

Now I live only for Peter

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

When I feel like shoveling in food, the emptiness can be filled only with love (April 2012, O Magazine)

I felt that in my strange new friends and in certain new books, I was meeting my other half. Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

Theodore Levitt famously said, "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole." The lesson is that the drill bit is merely a feature, a means to an end, but what people truly want is the hole it makes.

Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.

Everyone has a problem, a desire, and a narrative. Who will you seek to serve?

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.