“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”

“Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better.”

“The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing bybut you have speed far greater. You can climbback up a stream of radiance to the sky,and back through history up the stream of time.And you were given this swiftness, not for hastenor chiefly that you may go where you will,but in the rush of everything to waste,that you may have the power of standing still--off any still or moving thing you say.Two such as you with such a master speedFrom one another once you are agreedthat life is only life forevermoretogether wing to wing and oar to oar.”

“They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.”

“Unless you are at home in the metaphor, you are not safe anywhere.”

“The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.”