Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken by the world. They gyre and fall; they see through everything, and are blind.

Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.