The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

I longed to know the world's name.