“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”

“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

“I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have little house all by myself on the moon.”

“The children around our house have a saying that everything is either true, not true, or one of Mother's delusions. Now, I don't know about the true things or the not-true things, because there see...”

“I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the children, lying there crying with the pain of dying. I would help myself to groceries, I thought,...”

“Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, yo...”

“Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation pr...”

“Sorry is the day, and full of lament, when the young have to guard themselves from being food for the old.I am moved to bewilderment, when I glance my eyes upon a society that kills its young, and ...”

“With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him beforesimultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all the...”

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end,...”

“No explanation is ever as good as not having one.”

“You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”

“I didnt like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.”