K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.