“Their faces were zealously blank, their eyes filled with bland fire.”

“Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.”

“Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.”

“you must not come lightly to the blank page.”

“Let me say it again: You must not come lightly to the blank page.”

“They were drugged, stone in love. To them every scar on the face of the world was a beauty mark.”

“The eyes were damned, the staring, glaring eyes of one who sees but does not see, eyes ever turned inward to the sterile hell of dreams beyond control, dreams unleashed, risen out of the stinking swamps of the unconscious.”