“Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”

“He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he would never let her go.”

“Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is never getting your heart's desire. The other is getting it.”

“I love you,' he whispered again, wonderingly, as he understood at last how a lifetime together with someone that you loved could seem like an eternity, and yet not be long enough.”

“I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the wisdom of those who drink of me that me wise makes. Fools make a sibyl foolish, wherever she is.”