I found it quite easy to carry on a casual conversation it was as if my real feelings were down fathoms deep in my mind and what we said was just a feathery surface spray.

I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.