The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.