“The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.”

“Marxist socialism also had dark nooks and crannies where Jews were regarded as money-mad capitalists or as an ‘obsolete’ people who refused to join the onward march of secular progress towards a moneyless society. Anarchists also suffered from this contagion,…”

“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”

“On that day beneath the fluorescent lights of the YMCA, I was transcendent.”

“Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”

“For 't is a truth well known to most,
That whatsoever thing is lost,
We seek it, ere it come to light,
In every cranny but the right.”

“Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, Nature struggles to pour life.”

“How many Microsoft employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?" The answer to that is none because Bill Gates has declared darkness the new standard.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”