The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or read more

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

Families composed of rugged individualists have to do things obliquely.

And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., read more

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum
varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]