“Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.”

“The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.”

“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”

“What did one do after having a one-night stand (or, in my case, one-afternoon stand) with the school's biggest man-whore?”

“So what stands in place of the Christian message? An ethical and social idealism borne by a faith in progress that - who knows how - claims the right to call itself "Christian." And in the place of the church as the congregation of believers in Christ there stands the church as a social corporation." ~Bonhoeffer”

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”