“The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.”
“..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.”
“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.”
“It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.”
“To follow Beauty even when she shall lead you to the verge of the precipice; and though she is winged and you are wingless, and though she shall pass beyond the verge, follow her, for where Beauty is not, there is nothing;”
“He was on the verge on insanity with one foot on a banana peel...”