“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”

“You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.”

“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”

“In this dirty minded world, you are either someone's wife or someone's whore. And if you're not either people think there is something wrong with you....but there is nothing wrong with me”

“Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.”

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”

“That was when I first began to think about certain events or specific things being "important" and having "special purpose." Until then, the notion that anything had a designated, much less a special purpose would have been cuckoo to me. I was not what was commonly called a believer then, and I am a believer now; I believe in God, and I believe in the "special purpose" of certain events or specific things.”