I was thinking about what I said to you about customs and morals keeping people apart, making them different… — Samuel R. Delany

“The aristocracy,” she repeated. “At its worst, a sargasso of every conceivable neurosis society may have; by naming itself it has agreed to its own death. But at least it has had the dignity to applaud its own order of execution in the past if the document is eloquent.”

The army is just too easy and too simple: fight to the death for the cause is just.

Our parents saw each of us marrying, settling down, but certainly not with one another.