A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.