Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Living's heavy work, but off to one side the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb back on the wheel, I'd do it in a minute. You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.