Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

How little we know of what there is to know.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.