"Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind."

"It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of de…"

"The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman."

"Nacreous pearl light swam faintly about the hem of the lilac darkness; the edges of light and darkness were stitched …"

"And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped…"

"Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the wo…"

"The old church, with its sharp steeple, rotted slowly, decently, prosperously, like a good man's wife."

"By Christmas, with fair luck, he might be eligible for service in khaki: by Spring, if God was good, all the proud pr…"

"His own power and magic — overwhelmed him for a moment with a feeling of the purest, highest, and most glorious happi…"

"A stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came…"