“this wonderful gift of life, this sight, this smell, this touch, this taste, the glorious ability of thought.”

“I had always wondered why people closed their eyes when they kissed. Now I knew: they can't help it. The feeling is too overwhelming: the taste, the touch, the smell, even the sound. The sense of sight had to be excluded, or it wouldn't be possible to funciton.”

“Life was, in fact, cheap.If life was such a glorious, magnificent, wonderful thing, then it wouldn't be so easy to take it away.If life was a great gift, then he wouldn't be able to kill a fellow human being with one hand...”

“I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.”

“Monoculture wants you to forget that the joy of life is in the community of the village, where you can touch, taste, smell, feel and experience a motley potpourri of cultural vicissitudes.”

“Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.”