Kay Kenyon quotes:

Every man wishes to be king." Her hair snapped about her, buzzing.

He had always thought that death was black nothingness, but he had not counted on being awake for it.

It was always easy to think that happiness and wisdom lay in the shadows, in places that have never yet been seen.

We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.