there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

Failures aren't failures if you learn something from them.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere, one begins to feel like Medusa. People stop their normal life and actions and freeze into staring manikins. "We can never catch people or life unawares," as I wrote to my mother, in an outburst of frustration. "It is always looking at us."

Guys kick friendship all over just like a soccer, nonetheless it does not appear to crack. Girls deal with it like glass and it goes to items.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.