“...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.”

“We have to face it at last. We're not all human.”

“His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.”

“I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found that the imaginative world had pushed the real world right out of the way, and was literally more real.”

“If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?”

“It was, perhaps, no situation from which to face a charging badger.”

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”