Walter Padick Quotes

Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity.

Where the world ends is where you must begin.

“The man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.”

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland.

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size.”

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe.

Only equals speak the truth, that’s my thought on’t. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!

What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box and cover it with wet weeds to die?

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”