“Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.”

“With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.”

“Could it be, he wondered, that the goldenness was the Hazers' life force and that they wore it like a cloak, as a sort of over-all disguise? Did they wear that life force on the outside of them while all other creatures wore it on the inside?”

“There are most certainly two distinguishable kinds of truths, “truths of reason” (that two plus two equals four) and “truths of fact” (that the sky appears blue). By his resort to his daimon Socrates added the class of “truths of self,” personal truths.”

“It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.”

“I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.”

“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”

“Life is like a bird. Whose purpose of life is only to keep flying in the open sky. Do not imprison him in the cage of your misery because he suffocates and he torments day and night in the cage. Release him to fly in the open sky because he has the courage to touch the heights of the sky. Imprisoned in a cage, he loses his confidence and forgets to fly.”

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

“His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.”