The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beaut...y in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady ...it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on;... But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he... didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who is at my window, who, who? It's the blind cuckoo, mulling... the old song over. The old song is about fear, about tomorrow and next year. Timor mortis conturbat me, he sings....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other... window?--and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »