“and the stars were icicles of mockery”

“At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.”

“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”

“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. ”

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”