“Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?”

“We were all staring as we passes him, slowly, like a tourist at a wildlife park watching elephants from the safety of their wagon.”

“What I am saying,' [Hiram Bell] said, 'is that we once had much, and we made what we could of it, but now it is passed. Do you mourn the passing of civilization? I do not. We do not live for civilization. We live to build our souls up to be good enough for God. More beer?”

“We pass through Time from birth in order to have from where to come, together with death.”

“When a small night-lamp alone illuminated our love-making, it became a very small, circular room which silently passed through nights humming with stars.”

“The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.”