Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.