Darkness Visible Styron Quotes & Sayings

Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every tiny movement lasting for an infinite period. The images that reached his mind made no sense: it was like seeing the world through the multifaceted jewelled eyes of a dragonfly, but each facet saw something completely different, and he was unable to combine the things he was seeing, or thought he was seeing, into a whole that made any sense. — Neil Gaiman

Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis. — Aldous Huxley

If you choose to wear this, you'll be marked as mine. Mine to do with as I wish. You will obey me and never question what I tell you to do. — Tara Sue Me

Regrettably, many Americans don't pay much attention to the inconsistencies in U.S. foreign policy. People in other parts of the world who feel the impact of those policies play close attention. And they take notes. — Charles Kimball

Corn and bean people, I'm afraid, have extremely specialized minds. — Wendell Berry

Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me - saw me as I was at that moment - took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness. — J.M. Coetzee

My real talent was for losing clients. — Jay Chiat

Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else. — Margaret J. Wheatley