“But, as sages have long said, the sexiest part of the body and the best aphrodisiac in the world is the imagination.”

“But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.”

“Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage,
Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage
Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn
The manners of all nations, and the good from the bad to discern.”

“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”

“The moon is nothing
But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
Into a rising birth-rate.”

“Of Optimism I have said that "The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."”

“Can you imagine the world if we only saw souls, and not bodies?”

“Waiting is the worst part,' said Pismire.
'No it isn't,' said Owlglass, who wasn't even being trusted to hold a sword. 'I expect that having long sharp swords stuck in you is the worst part.”

“Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.”

“In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.”