Walter Padick Quotes

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

Where the world ends is where you must begin.

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

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

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

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.

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