The box is only temporary.

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

But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.