“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelstrm of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.”

“If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls”

“To live at all is miracle enough.”

“I am too rich already, for my eyes mint”

“Each day we live is a glass roomUntil we break it with the thrustingOf the spirit and pass throughThe splintered walls to the green pasturesWhere the birds and buds are breakingInto fabulous song a...”

“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”

“Beneath Albrights office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch of mismatched structures spattered on the valle...”

“Perhaps times definition of coal is the diamond.”

“Even coal shimmers in the light”