History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
History is more or less bunk.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.