He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.