[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

We are a noisy and blessed little family

Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.

There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.

There is nothing inherently sacred about moral codes. Like the wooden idols of long ago, they are the work of human hands, and what man has made, man can destroy!

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

On the Richter scale of love and romance, you've hit a twelve.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.