Sitting there in paranoid fantasy You can't read minds You always get morose and speculate about the destruction of the universe whenever you come out of starflight. It's your peculiar manifestation of motion sickness.

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

When someone dies, a loved one, and your last contact with them was angry or spiteful, then you begin to blame yourself. If only I hadn't said this, if only I …

I never thought id lose you again But I knew we had lost each other on the day you first loved [him]. Then you should have told me! I wouldn't have done it Tha…

'What the hell do I want to go to a place like Mombassa?... I just see myself in a pot of boiling water with all these natives dancing around me.'

I don`t care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to mys…