Credit is, of course, an automatic privilege. But, eventually, everything must be paid for." - Robert Sheckley

And a great longing overcame him, a desire to be finished with desire, to forego pleasure and pain, to quit the petty modes of achievement and failure, to have done with distractions, and get on with the business of life, which was death.

Love, the secret and unofficial heart of pair-bonding behavior, is a force to be reckoned with but never predicted. Love supersedes all other directives and cancels previous obligations. The shared look of love is love’s preview, presenting a foretaste of the joys and sorrows to come, and setting into motion the automatic mating machinery upon which the success and stability of the State depends.

I'm proposing to pay you five thousand dollars to do something you'll find quite enjoyable." "Make it ten," Foote said, "and I'll enjoy it even more.