“Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.”

"He threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it"

"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!"

"You too must seek the sun..."

"All these books are published in Heaven."

"A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness."

"Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?"

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity;

Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall...

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

“Water is life, and clean water means health.”

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

“Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.”

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.