Yesterday's kook book becomes tomorrow's standard text. (2:495) - Northrop Frye

You can never get rid of God as long as you continue to use words, because all words are part of the Word. (p. 871)

Man is born lost in a forest. If he is obsessed by the thereness of the forest, he stays lost and goes in circles; if he assumes the forest is not there, he keeps bumping into trees. The wise man looks for the invisible line between the "is" and the "is not" which is the way through. The street in the city, the highway in the desert, the pathway of the planets through the labyrinth of the stars, are parallel forms. (1:111)

The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.