“...the state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man...”
“A man can see a hundred women, lust for a thousand more, but it is one scent that will open his eyes and turn him to love.”
“You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'.”
“She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.”
“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”