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

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

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”

“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.”

“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.”

“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.”