Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.