If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.

Only art means anything.

Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.