If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.