I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.

We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.