I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples - and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.

I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt

What most people don't know about love, sex, and relations with other human beings would fill a book. Strangers in Paradise is that book. I have long suspected…

... the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.

'He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.'

And stepping westward seemed to be A kind of heavenly destiny.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.