Do either of you know clock patience? You have to add cards up to fifteen?
Leaving a picture lets you see the whole frame.
Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun’ll be worth any number of university degrees.
The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I.
Or else rip out the odd pages and leave me the even.
Nothing has changed, except everything.
Sunlight on waves is drowsy tinsel.
Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: “An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.” We.
For White man, life is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more.
That’s the problem with boys: They tend to help you only ’cause they fancy you, but there’s no unembarrassing way to find out their real motives till it’s too late.
Beauty is immune to definition.
Drums were here before we are. The rhythms of our mothers’ hearts.
Sunrise bright as a silver dollar.
The river’s vowels and the trees’ consonants speak a not-quite-foreign language.
Amsterdam wraps itself around itself: London unfolds, unfolds, unfolds.
If you don’t want the fish, why do you catch them?” A few seconds pass. “For the quality of the conversation.
Don’t you ever have days when you’re just so glad to be alive you want to” – he turns to me – “howl at the sun?
For a brief spell, we share a stage. Others are coming to kick us off. But while you’re here, write yourself a good part. Act it well.
The days when I had that kind of spondulics at my beck and call are gone, gone, gone! Our house is mortgaged, twice over!
A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, ‘Suicide is Selfishness.’ Career churchmen go a step further and call it a cowardly assault on the living... Cowardice has nothing to do with it – suicide takes considerable courage. No, what’s selfish i to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends and enemies a bit of soul-searching.