“Sometimes he would walk for hours and miles and return only at midnight to his house."

“Sheep panic and die insane. Women deliver forth monsters.”

“The sun has risen and a new day is upon us. Or the sea is blue. That now is the finest of all miracles”

"the lament, the bewilderment, the loneliness…folded over and upon us, above us.”

“The wind was a thousand souls dying and all time confused and in transit."

“Whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life.”

“It is only necessary that he create, without knowing why he has done so or what this thing will do.”

"The tombs, ill-lit by television light, where the people sat like the dead"

"Dawn showed faintly in the east. Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. "

“They walked into a garden, across a meadow of grass, over a small bridge, through a grove of trees..."

“We’re impossible. It’s like it always was ten million years ago. It hasn’t changed."

"oak bone on bone, its bared skeleton cringing from the heat, its wire, its nerves revealed..."

"one house in an entire city of houses that were dark, but this particular house had all its electric light brightly lit"

"It had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection"

“There are times when one must lose a little beauty if one is to keep what little beauty one already has."

"I have set people to walking in this woodland, enjoying the leaves and shadows and songs. That is what I have done."