Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.