On Love

"I thought I knew how to love. Don Juan said, 'How could you? They
never taught you about love. They taught you how to seduce, to envy,
to hate. You don't even love yourself- otherwise you wouldn't have
put your body through such barbarities. You don't have the guts to
love like a sorcerer. Could you love forever, beyond death? Without
the slightest reinforcement-nothing in return? Could you love without
investment, for the piss of it? You'll never know what it's like to
love like that, relentlessly. Do you really want to die without
knowing?'"
- Bruce Wagner