“As for ideology, the Hell with it.All of it.”

“Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?”

“Owning is owing, having is hoarding.”

“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.”

“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”

“Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.”

“Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.”