This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.