“Now I must rinse, he thought.”

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

“For a moment I thought I knew exactly how Christ must have felt as He called John.”

“He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia”

“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”

“I've always been happy with you," he said. "But I never thought I deserved it."
"And now you do?"
"And now the feeling's gone," he said. "All I know is that I love you and for the first time, that's good enough.”

“Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.”

“This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.”

“God, I'm in the same studio as de Burgh! He may have stood right where I'm standing now… and just thought his mad thoughts. Like "I am brilliant."”

“A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.

No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.”