“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”

“When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.”

“There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.”

“If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.”

“I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.”

“I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....”