The rain, it falls. The sun, it shines. The wind blows. And that’s what it’s like. You’re buffeted by this, by that, and it is nothing to do with you…

If you cud even jus see 1 thing clear the woal of whats in it you cud see every thing clear…

Lorna said to me, ‘You know Riddley theres some thing in us it dont have no name…

But when she sat on the edge of her bed, still faintly hearing the high accents of the music below, which seemed to be endlessly repeating tin-cup, top-hat, she saw that she knew what advice she would get if she went to get it…

I have five pebbles, not too different in size and weight, yet a randomness about them…

Next is he who cultivates the shoots of goodness…

To be true is the Way of heaven. To make oneself true is the Way of man…

“Crimony,” the Sarge says. “The whole town’s gone Hindu.”...

I’m looking out the pickup truck’s window at Ambleside Beach and the ocean and the freighters – at the mothers tending to their children covered in sand and sugar and spit, at the blue sky and the mallard ducks and the Canada geese…

According to Fertility Hollis, there is no chaos…

The night before I left home, my big brother told me everything he knew about the outside world…

The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.