So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.

Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta.