“How hideous is the semicolon.”

“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”

“But I did not yet know, at that time, how tender the earth can be for those who have only her and how many graves in her giving, for the living."First Love”

“No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.”

“How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?”

“My dear Tom,Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.”

“I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of-how shall I say, I don’t know.”