And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give hi… - Malcolm Lowry

He had peered out at the garden, and it was as though bits of his eyelids had broken off and were flittering and jittering before him, turning into nervous shapes and shadows, jumping to the guilty chattering in his mind, not quite voices yet, but they were coming back, they were coming back; a picture of his soul as a town appeared once more before him, but this time a town ravaged and stricken in the black path of his excess and shutting his burning eyes he had thought of the beautiful functioning of the system in those who were truly alive, switches connected, nerves rigid only in real danger, and in nightmareless sleep now calm, not resting, yet poised: a peaceful village.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.