“All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.”
“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. ”
“Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures - Alex”
“Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.”
“I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me.”
“Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.”