I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

We all have souls of different ages

I was too absorbed to be responsive

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Nothing any good isn't hard.