I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.
I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.