“I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.”
“What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”
“Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom.”
“Now there's a girl I don't want to mess with' — or at least, that's what I would think if I had a chronic fear of freakishly nice people.”
“After I heard that I had had a heart attack, how I lived in my body changed, and my doctor should have found a way to let me know he recognized that.”
“I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master . . . The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live.”