Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

No dream ever entirely disappears. Somewhere it troubles some unfortunate person and some day, when that person has been sufficiently troubled, it will be reproduced on the lot.

Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.