I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.