To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important. — Brian Aldiss

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.

It [i.e., his look] held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.