Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

No two persons ever read the same book.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.