What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.