How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.