To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.