“But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.”

“The sense of adventure and curiosity to see what the future holds is the other side of serenity. It, too, is a spiritual state most attractive in people in transition, whether entering adulthood or preparing for death.-Sexuality and Spiritual Growth”

“Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.”

“I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.”

“The tickling narrative, unlike the sexual narrative, has no climax.Is the tickling scene, at its most reassuring, not a unique representation of desire and, at its most unsettling, a paradigm of the perverse contract?Does it not highlight, this delightful game, the impossibility of satisfaction and of reunion, with its continual reenactment of the irresistible attraction and the inevitable repulsion of the object, in which the final satisfaction is frustration?”

“It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price all good places have to pay.”