He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

Fish cannot carry guns.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

It's not what happened but how it is told.

Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.