I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

I used to pray to recover you.