Acknowledge your limitations or they will tyrannize over you.
If the current is right, one can drift to success.
Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating.
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.