We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.