Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
Oh, wise young judge.
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.