I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Clearly money has something to do with life.

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.