“Socialism as a thoroughgoing system had failed. But the central emotion behind it had not. And that emotion has only deepened…”

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”

“It was the first honest emotional connection I'd had in a while. So I immediately panicked and had to leave.”

“One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.”

“For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.”

“The somatosensory system… mediates emotional behaviors.”

“That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.”

“From where he was, the fear had stopped being an emotion and turned into an environment.”

“I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.”

“He too had played with anarchy; though not with socialism, which, to young men who nourished artistic emotions under the dome of the Pantheon, seemed hopelessly bourgeois, and lowest middle-class.”