“Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.”

“What is it that you contain?The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?”

“You are a pool of clear water where the light plays”

“Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.”

“But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.”

“Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.”

“...what he told himself on those sea-soaked nights...Others joined in and it was discovered that every light had a story-no, every light was a story. And the flashes themselves were the stories going out over the waves, as markers and guides and comfort and warning.”