Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

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.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.