If we are a people who pray darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line When did she admit defeat and surrender

She slept deeply but as usual she did not dream. It had been months none of them was dreaming anymore. p. 227

The lines of fate on my hand once so bright faded into echo.The memory of his face in my dreams once so luminous passed into shadow.

The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum big strong super-cool with those Freon eyes of his. Thats who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

An alder tree cant become an oak at will. A maple cant pick up its roots like legs and stride step by powerful step along the shore to find the sun. And everything that ever said otherwise--all those years of school and the plays and moving pictures that promise you can be someone else something more--they were all lies.

Creo que todo sueo que se repite tiene algo de misterioso pues nos hace percatarnos de que el inconsciente est cavando obsesivamente para desenterrar un objeto que se niega a salir.

The ones who live for themselves find it easier to follow their dreams.

I had a dream about you. I left for the country club you the mountain top knowing that at our reunion one would fall. When golf clubs fence with skis both summer and winter are painted red. In the contact sports of the wealthy the seasons are no longer impersonal forces.