The past was so past it hurt.
Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.
I get whiskey bent and hell bound.
Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium.
It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.