Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.