"Jocelyne clicked her barbell on her teeth. I was watching her closely for signs of collapsing romance. Her tongue was pierced, and it put me in mind of the tongue-piercing ceremony endured on October 28, 709 AD by the principal wife of Shield Jaguar, Blood Lord of Yaxchilan ; i.e. to my eye, pointless, but if it's good enough for the Mayans ..."

"When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion…"

"No love can survive muteness."

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

"Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love."

"History, as Treitschke contends, is first of all the presentation of res gestae, and of active statesmen. T…"