“Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.”

“Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207”

“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”

“There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter; it is a place of great splendor in Rome. Nowhere can be found more gold.”

“Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.”

“One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.”

“So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.”