“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.”

“Hard writing makes easy reading.”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elemen...”

“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at...”