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

“Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.”

“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”

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

“Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.”