Paul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order. - Fritz Leiber

Afterward loses too many battles to Too Late.

That was another trouble with women, they were never there when you wanted or really needed them. They helped each other, all right, but they expected men to do all sorts of impossible feats of derring-do to prove themselves worthy of the great gift of their love (and what was that when you got down to it?—a fleeting clench-and-wriggle in the dark, illuminated only by the mute, incomprehensible perfection of a dainty breast, that left you bewildered and sad).

Poets are wiser than anyone because they’re the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time.