To think is to be sick... - Djuna Barnes

And once Father Lucas said to me, 'Be simple, Matthew, life is a simple book, and an open book, read and be simple as the beasts in the field; just being miserable isn't enough — you've got to know how.' So I got to thinking and I said to myself, 'This is a terrible thing that Father Lucas has put on me — be simple like the beasts and yet think and harm nobody.

Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad.