“He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.”

“Birkenstock desert boots have been a part of pop culture since the beatniks. I made such a fuzz about them being discontinued that the company send me an "lifetime supply", which initially turned out to be seven pairs at two years apiece. They weren’t giving me very long. I think that’s why I gave up smoking.”

“I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.”

“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”

“Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die.”

“Man is a complex being who makes deserts bloom and lakes die. ”

“Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.”

“But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.”

“As, when one torch has been fired, flame is transmitted to all the neighbouring candlesticks, without either the first light being lessened or blazing with unequal brilliance on the other points where it has been caught; so the saintliness of a life is transmitted from him who has achieved it, to those who come within his circle.”

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”