To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.
The Way is ever nameless.
That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.
But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.
Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.
Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.
I would introduce myself if it were not useless. The name I had last night will not be the same as the name I have tonight. For the moment, then, let me say that I am thinking of Sam Slovoda.
I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.
God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.
I became a total yes. We don't even have names anymore.
