Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.