“Survivors can't always choose their methods.”

“You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”

“Love is not necessary for sex.”

“A king who trusts no man is weak.”

“Dragons and legends...It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”