One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.