So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

I have had my vision.

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.