I haven't had a drink for 24 and a half years, so I don't live the kind of life anymore where I literally take mind altering substances, or do things…

- Francis Levy

Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imag…

- Francis Levy

I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.

- Francis Levy

I was in analysis for many years, and one of the things analysis does is open up forbidden territories. It opens up those unconscious, instinctual ur…

- Francis Levy

Can we come to the point where we can accept the impossible strivings that we have, the utter inability to ever fulfill our narcissistic megalomania,…

- Francis Levy

If we're not conscious of sex, than we don't know we're having the pleasure. There's a compromise. By virtue of being human, there's self-reflection.…

- Francis Levy

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my co…

- Francis Levy

I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the differ…

- Francis Levy

Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive s…

- Francis Levy