“The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.”

“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”

“God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.”

“They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.”

“Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.”

“Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.”