“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”

“...I have become more interested than ever in the effect of a diet higher in 'greens' than it is in meat - both in terms of my own wellbeing and, more recently, those implications that go beyond me and those for whom I cook.”

“One must love a cat on its own terms.”

“Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!”

“With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out."Long-term or short-term?" she asks.Both."Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after."Really?"Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.”