“Let us not mock God with metaphor,Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages:Let us walk through the door.”

“That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God”

“The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.”

“How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.”

“The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.”

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”