“I had never considered myself to be multi-orgasmic, but Sabian either assumed I was or decided I would be.”
“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ”
“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.”
“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”
“I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.”
“For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.”