Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
Jose SaramagoPerhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramagobut it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.
Jose Saramago