“Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.”

“Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.”

“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?”

“We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universethat sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.”

“I am not going to lie down and weep away a life of care.”

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

“Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees, ... one's happiness, one's reality?”