"To be included in Dick Diver’s world for a while was a remarkable experience: people believed he made special reserva…"

"Nicole was the product of much ingenuity and toil. For her sake trains began their run at Chicago and traversed the r…"

"All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love."

"I like France, where everybody thinks he’s Napoleon — down here everybody thinks he’s Christ."

"One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of …"

"Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somew…"

"The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing," he said. "Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too s…"

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."

"Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural …"

"We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the …"