“They stood aloof the scars remaining. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder.”
“And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.”
“Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.”
“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.”
“Unattached to man or matter,You remain aloof and cold.”
“If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.”