“Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.”
“I want.." she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.”
“I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’. ”
“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
“When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.”
“He wanted what he didn’t know and he didn’t know how to get what he wanted.’ (Acheron)”