One who was born by the ocean or has associated with it cannot ever be quite content away from it for very long

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is a dreadful beauty.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

...[A] loving woman is almost indestructible.

In every man this thing is hidden. It tries to get out, but a man's fears distort it. He chokes it back. What does get out is changed-blood on the hands of a statue, emotion over the story of an ancient torture-the giving or drawing of blood in copulation.

I have made up reasons, but they aren't true. I have said to myself, 'The sun is life. I give life to life'-'I make a symbol of the sun's death.' When I made these reasons I knew they weren't true.....I gave up reasons. I do this because it makes me glad. I do it because I like to.

The calm and the sorrow were so great that they bore down on his chest, and the loneliness was complete, a circle impenetrable.

He's eating God the way a bear eats meat against the winter.