Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.