“The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.” EndsPleasureRoomsJourneyReturnSeekingVarietyCellsCyclesOver ItLockedThrillHuntersSpectatorsStarting OverSexuallyRepetitivePromiscuous Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.” WorldWaterRoomsCitiesOur LivesJourneySeaEdgesNightmareFragileBellsPlagueCeilingsVeniceLabyrinthPigeonsLingeringDialectCanalsCities In The WorldShimmerChimeraLiaison Author:Erica Jong
“The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.” PeopleHumansCharacterCan DoHuman BeingsRoomsAudienceOne ThingJourneyEmotionalSmartOnlineSatisfyingSmart People Author:Frank Spotnitz