“Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”

“I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.”

“All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.”

“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”

“I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.”