I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

...rapid motion through space elates one.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.