“The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.”

“the more he studied Buffet, the less he thought he could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffet was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”

“Strength is not energy. Some writers have more muscles than talent.”

“Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.”

“Your greatest strength, Ray, and possibly your only strength, is in pretending that you don't understand simple things.”

“Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.”

“They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.”

“Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”

“She didn't want to know how much Ray had paid for it because that had nothing to do with its real value.”

“Incentives to virtuous energy are a sort of moon to the moral world. Their borrowed light is but a dimmer substitute for the life-giving rays of religion.”