I feel as if I am an ad for the sale of a haunted house: 18 rooms $37,000 I’m yours ghosts and all.

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.