...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

A gentleman can live through anything.

I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.