“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.”

“Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.”

“Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would eventually become inevitable, but those would have to wait until she no longer needed the cloak of who she was.”

“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”

“But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.”

“My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.”

“If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?”