Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.