... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.