Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.