Music is the can-opener of the soul.
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.
Work on one thing at a time until finished.