I did not attend the services, because it seems to me, as Pythagoras says, the body is the tomb of the soul and that by being born a person has alrea… - Philip K. Dick

"Time to get up," he informed her. "Don’t you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?" "What’s he saying?" Marsha murmured crossly. "Nothing in particular. Repent or suffer eternal damnation. The usual tribal tub-thumping."

And yet, even if one person finds his way … that means there is a Way. Even if I personally fail to reach it.

but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall — falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.