We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

I never promise a woman anything nor let her know what I'm going to give her. That's the only way to manage them. Always keep them guessing. If you cant think of any other way to surprise them, give them a bust in the jaw.

She was the captain of her soul

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

Because there is something in the touch of flesh with flesh which abrogates, cuts sharp and straight across the devious intricate channels of decorous ordering, which enemies as well as lovers know because it makes them both:---touch and touch of that which is the citadel of the central I-Am's private own: not spirit, soul; the liquorish and ungirdled mind is anyone's to take in any any darkened hallway of this earthly tenement. But let flesh touch with flesh, and watch the fall of all the eggshell shibboleth of caste and color too.