red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Love is the ultimate outlaw.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.