“Now is the autumn of our ennui.”

“This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.”

“What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.”

“It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.”

“Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.”

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”