Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy