She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.

You are a beautiful flower of love in the endless wilderness of time.

His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

That was never a penalty in a million planets.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.