"The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won."

"I know it's morbid, but I remember growing up with a kind of envy for that sweet, endless plummet- how your body can be given a measure of grace as it greets the air, feels its own heft and buoyancy."

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."

"Living is like nothing because it is everything"

"Did Nature supplement what man advanced? Did she complete what he began?"

"They stepped out of their robes like nymphs, and they stepped out of their bodies like monsters,"

"Use it to prove how the stars were always what we knew they were: exit wounds of every misfired word."

"A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps."

"Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means 'the dropping of petals'. The world has dropped its petals."

"That maybe even if we're not always so glad to be here, it's our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open."

"You're not in Wonderland anymore, but you positively reek of rabbit"