It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water?

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

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

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