His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere.

Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of the seasons, the waves beat out the passage of time on the rocks and the tides rise and fall as a great clepsydra.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

... you must not expect to find that people understand what they do.