“Oh. THere goes another one. Just like Achilles.”

“Once Arden said, "Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called sheep? It should be shoop and sheep. Like, 'Oh, look, there goes a shoop,' and 'Wow, there goes a lot of sheep'."--The Fire Stone”

“But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.”

“oh this is how it starts lightning strikes your heart, and it goes off like a gun, brighter than the sun....”

“Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.”

“Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.”