"The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?" Preface, p. i

"Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle. These are the journeys I wish to record." Introduction, p. 2

"I swear that what he had resembled nothing more than the private parts of an Oriental. It was yellow and livid and long." Introduction, p. 5

"There's many will want this heart but none will have it. None save one and she will...