"The Holy" by Daniel Quinn quotes

I figure it was time to take the book back to the library before my fines reach my height in dollars. :]

so here's my documentation of the best quotes in the book:

"He was creating a crisis by preparing for a crisis. He was pressing for a decision before a decision was needed." pg.34

"when there's ice to be broken, make the ice-maker break it"
pg 40

"he was like a reformed smoker reaching for a pack of cigarettes that wan't there"
pg173

"This is something i learned long ago, David. Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them."
"True".
She shook her head in amuzed disgust. "you say 'true' as if you alrady knew it, and yet you just one minute ago there you were, telling me a lie you didn't need to tell, simply as a matter of reflex....I bet you left your wife becaue you just couldn't stand liening to her anymore."
"ouch. Are you a compulsive truth-teller then?"
"Oh, no. Far from it. I'm a very accomplished liar. But I never lie out of cowarduce, and I don't care to be around people who do."
pg258

"Keep watch on yourself and you'll find out. Take note of the things you tremble at and the things you sneer at, and you'll see."
pg288

"Twenty years later you went looking again, but those twenty years have hardened in you tendencies that made you unfit for the company you sought: the tendency to reject anything outside your compass as unreal or unworthy of attention, the tendency to fortify yourself within a shrine of self-regard, the tendency to scale everyone against yourself. All these things defeated you." pg 333-334

"From the outset, you were like someone who avidly sets out to explore a foreign country but stays only at the hilton and associates only with other tourists. You appily gave yourself up to be duped by those of your own kind but were rigidly on guard against those who were trying to guide you into the company you set out to find. You refused every invitation, failed every test, resisted every effort to jolt you from the ruts of your old life. You wanted to shatter the walls that imprison you, but you wanted more to crouch behind them and protect them from assault. You ventured forth to discover uncharted lands of experience and then fled in terror when they proved to be truly uncharted. You wanted to probe beneath the surface of the piddling life your culture gives you to lead - but you wouldn't tolerate being disconcerted. Oh my, no. You wanted your adventure to be all nicely under your control; in fact, you wanted it to be indistinguishable from the life you'd abandoned."
pg 334

"And what special wisdom is it that enables you to determine who belongs here and who does not?"
pg337

"How do you sort through the mess to find out which part was good?"
pg371

"I merely did for him what his God would not."
pg406