In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.