The Exegis : Philip K Dick

• "I am a sharp-eyed crow, spying anything that twinkles and grabbing it...to add to my heap."

The Great Gatsby

• when I’d shouted “hello.” several times in vain, an argument broke out behind a partition, and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.
• and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.
• Throwing open the French windows of the drawing-room, we sat smoking out into the darkness.
• he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass

Aleister Crowley

• Someone asks AC what he thinks about Jesus;

“I hold the poor fellow totally innocent of the religion that was foisted upon him posthumously.”