Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.

Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.

I tell, therefore you are.

I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.