You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.