“He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being.”

“Now here (he pointed to the leafy enclosure we had entered) all is real, sweet, and pure”

“He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it.”

“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

“A man can reach the heights of the Super-Man by entering the field of supra-sexuality, by knowing how to enjoy love, by knowing how to enjoy a woman, by knowing how to live with joy or with more emotion and less useless reasoning.”

“He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion.”