Interest

How does it happen that the 80% of people who seem interesting to me are not interested in me? I mean they do not ignore me, we spend a lot of time together and we have fun, but they like only to speak about themselves. They never ask any questions about my preferences and interests. When I come across such guys I just put up with it and explore their minds, uncover their thoughts and study what they believe in. It is tremendously interesting but remebering that human nature is egoistic, I also like when sometimes people are interested in me.

Words erotic

It is widely known that the power of words is immense, but I've recently came across an interesting quotation which made me think about words in a rather different way.

"This is something that has concerned me most of my sexual life-which began late, I must announce to this select company. In the same way the sexual pleasure of conversation came to me only after I was married. I had never thought words erotic. Sometimes I really do like to talk more than fuck. Sentences. Buckets of this buckets of that and then buckets of this again. The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. Whereas you can't fuck yourself into a corner."

Caravaggio
"The English Patient"
Michael Ondaatje