The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.