Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.