That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.

The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.

I have experienced life enough to realize that reality does not align with dreams, but its greatest joy now is to tell this reality that it does not need her and that her happiness is not linked to...

I will at least have gained one ver

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on...

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, so space, no frontiers.

Is there some vital connection between Norman church architecture and the milking of beef cattle of which I am unaware?

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities.

I'm not so sure innocence exists anymore.

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

Sam had a skill that often let him take what he needed. But you couldn't do that with love. It had to be given. Shared.

"The real shit {that was Mo’s mantra} is pigeons, not their shit. Divorce is when you take away what you no longer need from those you no longer love."

Perhaps the whole life is merely a long preparation for the moment when we part with it.

Sometimes I get to know myself through others

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles...

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The bliss of the ordinary, the true summering among familiar things and always close faces, replaced the dangerous and exhilarating happiness of lively spaces and dreamed flights through them.

I thought that if you have to play wrong to realize, then it's better if you never realize. Do you see, that's just how I am.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night from the shower, some version of herself hadn't vanished with him. Perhaps her mind would go on...

The small family living unit lacks space, Earth, other animals, seasons, natural temperatures, and so on. The pet is either sterilized or sexually isolated, extremely limited in his exercise, deprived...

All its dimensions with their projected geometries are those of an unrealisable dream.