Perish The Universe, Provided I Have My

The People Of Your World Became So Stupid And Rude That My Companions And I No Longer Enjoyed Teaching Them. You Must Surely Have Heard Of Us: We Were Called Oracles, Nymphs, Spirits, Fairies, Household Gods, Lemures, Larvas, Lamias, Sprites, Water-nymphs, Incubi, Shades, Spirits Of The Dead, Specters And Ghosts.

After A While The Press Of Business In The Province Put An End To Our Philosophizing, And I Returned With Increased Determination To My Plans To Fly To The Moon.

A Man Contains All That Is Needed To Make Up A Tree; Likewise, A Tree Contains All That Is Needed To Make Up A Man. Thus, Finally, All Things Meet In All Things, But We Need A Prometheus To Distill It.

To Tell The Truth, The Chariot Was An Astonishing Sight To Behold, Because I Had Polished The Steel Of My Flying House So Carefully That It Reflected The Sunlight On All Sides. It Was So Bright And Dazzling That I Thought, Myself, That I Had Been Carried Away In A Chariot Of Fire.

The Insufferable Arrogance Of Human Beings To Think That Nature Was Made Solely For Their Benefit, As If It Was Conceivable That The Sun Had Been Set Afire Merely To Ripen Men's Apples And Head Their Cabbages.