“Does anyone ask a painter -- even the painter himself -- why he paints? Now me, I painted... used to... whatever I saw that was beautiful. It had to be beautiful to me, through and through, before ...”

“Why do you talk all the time? I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one side and considered it carefully.I think its cause I dont know any big words, like you and Mummy,...”

“I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. Put them pants on, I said, and be a man. She did, but she cried quietly until I shook her and said gently, Stop it ...”

“We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.”

“The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk from the earth.Thats mining, said the Drip. There is a twenty-third century legend that youth was co...”

“Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you? It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted a...”

“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”

“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when ...”

“Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”