Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.