Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?

I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.

We are home to each other now.

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?

Some things we need to talk about, but not here. I'll see you later, darling." "No you won't, nut muffin!

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.