I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

How hideous is the semicolon.

The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)

I had little talent for happiness.