The Devil's out of fashion.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.

We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.