Read, read read. Read everything.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat...nor make love for eight hours...

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.