“One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.”

“There are men right now who have never learned how to talk to women. How will we talk to somebody really different – aliens?”

“There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.”

“I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people. What is one man's and one woman's love and desire, against the history of two worlds, the great revolutions of our lifetimes, the hope, the unending cruelty of our species? A little thing. But a key is a little thing, next to the door it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked. It is in our bodies that we lose or begin our freedom, in our bodies that we accept or end our slavery. So I wrote this book for my friend, with whom I have lived and will die free.”

“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

“Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.”

“When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.”