“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.I heard many things in hell.”

“TRUE! – nervous – very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses – not destroyed – not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily – how calmly I can tell you the whole story.”

“God's will. How many times have I heard someone declare their understanding of this thing I find so indefinable?”

“I saw and heard, and knew at lastThe How and Why of all things, past,and present, and forevermore.”

“All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra.”

“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”