I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.