Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
The best wines take the longest to mature.
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.