Mountains abide in ease and always walk. You should examine in detail this quality of the mountain's walking.

He had learned another word, ‘No fear!’ He was proud of that, it made him jump with joy.Outside I didn't like to be noticed. I gave him a few kicks in the as*. He got the drift, he left me alone. As a reward I gave him pickles. I always took a supply with me, my pockets were full of them. They were his favorite delicacy, that way I made him behave.He'd let himself be torn limb for limb for pickles

—I’m not old. Everybody assures me I’m in the flower of my youth. —That’s what they tell me, too— said Rey. —I’m tired of hearing it— said Dante. —It’s not the same— protested, irritated, Jimi. —That’s why Eskimos take their elders to the fields and let them freeze to death— said Arevalo.

Life had already occupied virtually all ecological niches on the Earth, and then devised human beings. The genes were very careful in devising Man to make him not quite smart enough to make an ideal existence on this planet, and to pollute it sufficiently so there would be pressure to look for other places to live. And this of course would serve the purposes of DNA perfectly.

I found a bin of old rice, containing worms that had hatched, eaten the grain and died inside.

He once or twice said that going down Ratcliffe Highway he was jumped out at from a doorway by a gentleman who presented him with a pocket copy of the English Bible. This was printed on rice paper. He used the leaves for rolling cigarettes, but before smoking always read the page. So, he said, he learned English.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity.The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age

I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

—Aren't you going to ask me who I am engaged to? —Do you love him? —How can you ask me such a thing? —she cried in genuine astonishment. Her only reply was to kiss the hand which was holding the umbrella over her.