That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.