“Logs drowse in the pondDreaming of their heroesAlligator and crocodile”

“The Windowsill Over the Sink[...] begins to crowd around you with its clutter showing you that you can keep everything but promises.”

“An ordinary man can enjoy breakfasting on juice and rye bread.But when you are underfed, scorned, miserable or just plain bored, you don’t want to eat dull wholesome food.You want something a little more colourful, exciting, tastier, meatier and juicier.”

“I'm not certain that I understand all I know about that.”

“Looking can make you want. Wanting can get you thinking. If you want them to stop thinking, just give them what they want.”

“The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.”

“Crocodiles, you will say, are stationary. Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not change,—that a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs. That may be; but the reason is that the crocodile does not live fast—he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood among naturalists that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads.”