“Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.”

“Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human. ”

“We will grow old, and older,One of us will die, and then the other.The earth itself will be impaledby sunspokes. It doesn't matter.We have been imprinted on the protons of energy herself,”

“Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?”

“and you and I left with the same old question the sheer unspeakable strangeness of being here at all ”

“There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.”

“I found out when I went away from Wythorpe the first time in November--remember? How nice it is to rhyme, I must do it all the time.”