“You look nice in those old slacks, but in the raw you are Beauty herself.”

“It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.”

“Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”

“Ah I can see that.... You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see”

“This is the evening of the two-fisted prayer”

“Nobody's a long time.”

“The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.”