“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

“Love as thou wilt”

“All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.”

“The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart”

“The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.”

“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”

“We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.”

“I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happeninglike the old couple in Titanic.”

“I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.”

“Value is more expensive than price.”

“So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.”

“The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it.”

“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.”