“Passion: "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin."Mark: "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.”

“Polite applause punctuated the end of the clockmaker's speech. But Passion continued to stare. Herwords came before she thought to hold them back. "Your profile ought to be pressed upon a coin."He bent his blue gaze upon her. "Your body ought to be pressed upon mine.”

“No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.”

“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk.”

“The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has alreadyaccomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”

“I want to play you…” He pressed his forehead to mine, closing his eyes. “I want to play your body like an instrument.”