I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts.

Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.