“Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.”

“We also spent entire nights in bed and I told her my dreams. I told her about the big snake of the world that was coiled in the earth like a worm in an apple and would someday nudge up a hill to be thereafter known as Snake Hill and fold out upon the plain, a hundred miles long and devouring as it went along. I told her this snake was Satan. "What's going to happen?" she squealed; meanwhile she held me tight.”

“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. ”

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”

“The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.”

“What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.”

“Houses are full of things that gather dust”