“Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.”

“The world had edges but you couldnt see them going, only when you were trying to come back.”

“There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasnt a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the ...”

“...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole.”

“A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.”

“Apes or human we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.”

“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”

“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”

“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”