The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn’t enough life left in me to panic. I’d made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not...

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man...

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.