But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.