“We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.”

“Had I done the right thing by not telling her? Maybe not. Who on earth wanted the right thing anyway? Yet what meaning could there be if nothing was right? If nothing was fair? Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase.”

“If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.”

“I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel.”

“The only way to understand what's really fair is to take a long-range view of things.”

“Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.”

“A hotel is serious business.”