Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Time is what death needs to grow people in.