Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.