From his heart, he thanks these young animals for their beauty. And they will never know what they have done to make this moment marvelous to him, an… - Christopher Isherwood

A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence.
I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

...I have had an unpleasant feeling, such as one has in a dream, that I myself do not exist.