"Tell me everything; when you'll be out again, where you'll be at
Christmas and that you think of me and love me, I don't want you for a day (though
I'd sell my toes to see you now my dear, only for a minute, to kiss you
once and make a funny face at you): a day is the length of a gnat's
life: I want you for the lifetime of a big, mad animal, like an
elephant."
"I lost you in the morning. I don't want to write words, words, words to you; I must see you and
hear you; it's hell writing to you now . . . you are really my flesh and
blood Caitlin whom I love more than anyone has loved anyone else. It's
nonsense me living without you, you without me: the world is very
unbalanced unless in the very centre of it we stand together all the
time in a hairy, golden, more-or-less unintelligible haze of daftness."