“I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really — like a beer that’s been in a brawl.”

“What could you accomplish if no one told you it was impossible?”

“Should I be concerned over the obvious delight our daughter takes in the ultraviolence?""It's genetic.”

“donald justice: i often wonder about the others,where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence, was there some reason to go away?”

“Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.”

“The consciousness of what you possess makes you put them to use”

“I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.”