I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

and silence is the golden mountain

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true