“You let me set the water in the shower, and followed me into the booth to stand there with me under the warm spray. You kept your head down, not looking me in the eyesthough if you were shy, I coul...”

“what it is is the memory of a dance a song you heard long ago to hear it is to be young again and for once for once you are happy”

“Theyd come for you, and this time theyd come with we”

“The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than Id seen before. You called out another mans name.”

“The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.”

“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.”

“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is ...”

“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.”

“War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.”

“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor of others by means of such appropriation.It has...”

“Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and mastery your clients become a kind of extension of yourself, o...”

“Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your...”

“What sexual preference do you hope she has? Happiness. Isnt that cool?”

“[Two respondents] minimized the assimilationist implications of the dominant account; Russ Silver rejects the idea entirely.I have no interest in being accepted. I consider this system corrupt, and...”

“For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.”