“The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”

“The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deedThe Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.”

“The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.”

“No matter how long I live, I will always remember the way the light went out of her eyes, like a candle flame caught in an unexpected wind.”

“Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!”

“The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.”