Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.

One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it appear that people who harmed me were interfering with an important experiment.

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.