“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.”
“Little Willie, full of glee,Put radium in grandma's tea.Now he thinks it quite a larkTo see her shining in the dark.”
“Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. ”
“Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.”
“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”
“Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)”