“We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.”

“… It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.”

“Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.
One.
Two.
Three.
Blink.”

“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

“Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye”

“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.”

“Up in box five I blinked in surprised amusement. That was a new one! Little Giry should be writing Gothic novels, not prancing around the stage dressed as a water nymph!”

“Ah! let not Censure term our fate our choice,
The stage but echoes back the public's voice;
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please must please to live.”

“But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.”

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”