A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

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

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.