“What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.”

“Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!”

“He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.”

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”

“Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.”

“—Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like?—Comic. Terror is forgotten.Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity.Death from a wound, from a noose, from starvationIs one death, but folly is uncounted and new every year.”