“All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.”
“This idea is fraught with peril, and I fear that my answers to your questions will be interpreted as approval rather than reluctant assistance.”
“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and death”
“Well, all speaking is difficult, whether peril attends it or not. Sometimes peril to the body, sometimes a more intimate, miniature, invisible peril to the soul. When to speak at all is a betrayal of something, perhaps a something not even identified, hiding inside the chambers of the body like a scared refugee in a site of war.”
“Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.”
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”