"But the notes and the records and the ideas always came back to this room. It was here they were digested and stored, and woven into their proper place in his history." The Family, Chap. 1, p. 16

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own." The Family, Chap. 8, p. 78

"St. Peter lay looking up at them from a little boat riding low in the purple water, and the design of his book unfolded in the air above him, just as definitely as the mountain ranges themselves. And the design was sound. He had accepted it as inevitable, had never meddled with it, and it had seen him through." The Family, Chap. 9, p. 89

"Yes, the Professor reflected, after all these years, that was still true. Fellows like Outland don't carry much luggage, yet one of the things you know...