They had turned the cliff and were riding along the road about fifty feet to the left.
"You see every one's got to have some cloak to throw around it.

The mediocre intellects, Plato's second class, use the remnants of romantic chivalry diluted with Victorian sentiment--and we who consider ourselves the intellectuals cover it up by pretending that it's another side of us, has nothing to do with our shining brains; we pretend that the fact that we realize it is really absolving us from being a prey to it.

But the truth is that sex is right in the middle of our purest abstractions, so close that it obscures vision....

I can kiss you now and will.

..." He leaned toward her in his saddle, but she drew away.
"I can't--I can't kiss you now--I'm more sensitive." "You're more stupid then," he declared rather impatiently.