To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.