Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

DEATH . . . And now you are here to fight for this woman. You know her promise is given. She has to die or her husband won't go free. APOLLO Relax, I'm not breaking any laws. DEATH Why the bow, if you're breaking no laws? APOLLO I always carry a bow, it's my trademark.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.