“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

“When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.”

“You have to believe in yourself more than most people believe in god, or something. ”

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

“I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.”

“You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.”

“Monogamy is absolutely imperative. The minute you start fiddling around outside the idea of monogamy, nothing satisfies anymore. Suppose you make love to an exciting woman other than your wife, it can’t remain enough to go bed with her there must be something else, something more than the absolute compulsion of the body. But if there is something more, it will eventually destroy either you or your marriage.”

“You can, after all, produce an orgasm yourself if that's what you want, so we must go to bed for something more.”

“I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.”