We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.
He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.
If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.