That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over-motivation- leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.