“Caro… I don’t understand – why do you love me?”“Just because… because the sky is blue and the sea is green.”

“Why are you afraid of death?Because you don’t understand the perfect love of Jesus. Because perfect love casts outfear.”

“Tell me why the stars do shine,Tell me why the ivy twines,Tell me what makes skies so blue,And I'll tell you why I love you.Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,Tropisms make the ivy twine,Raleigh scattering make skies so blue,Testicular hormones are why I love you. ”

“But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.Because they have no memory . . . because they are not human.”

“I don’t have a blue-collar job. It’s more of a green collar, because of all the yellow sweat stains mixing in.”

“When I loved you and you loved me,You were the sky, the sea, the tree;Now the skies are skies, and seas are seas,And trees are brown and they are trees. ”