“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

“Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light....”

“I took the dog out for a walk tonight, and together we wandered across the meadow next door. It was a warm summer's night, dark, and moonless. There were a handful of fireflies flickering intermittently, some so close to me I could see they were burning green as they flew, and some further away, who seemed to be flashing white.And in the sky above them a continual roil of distant summer lightning (the storm distant enough that it was silent) burned and flashed and illuminated the clouds. It seemed as if the lightning bugs were talking to the lightning, in a perfect call and response of flash and counterflash. I watched the sky and the meadow flash and flash while the dog walked ahead of me, and realised that I was perfectly happy...”

“To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.”

“Life is but a flash of time, a momentous flicker-- in the life that we know and space we live in on earth.© VW”

“Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.”