... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.