They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.