“Gently my mind escapes into the relaxing mode of pleasure.A pleasure that will take my mind off the reality of life.My past life.Life as I know it know.And whatever may come it slowly disappears to somewhere in the back of my mind.It will remain there until I wish to retrieve it.”
“I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, my mind a jumble. So much for breaking it off gently, I thought. The humor helped my mind clear, but I couldn't laugh. What would happen next?”
“In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly from my back and left somewhere on the ground.”
“I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.”
“I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place...”
“I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful”